One Voice
The playing field level
your words versus mine
A race to forever
embedded in rhyme
The score has been tied
neither side giving ground
Both phrases and couplets
inscribed to astound
It’s late in the game
when a stanza takes off
Outpacing the others
no images lost
As darkness approaches
but one voice remains
Returned from the heavens
— posterity claimed
(The New Room: February, 2024)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 05, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX XABA XXBX BBBX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 70 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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