Artesian Well
Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin 1872 – 1963
In the feathergrass steppe
Sources lie buried,
The thirsty sun knows
Life isn't raspberries.
In barren haymeadows
A child tarries,
Walnut crosier
Outstretched, gold-eyed,
The bracing treasure,
Slender, streams.
They bubble deep,
Both song and splashes, -
In the live coppice
An April peal.
More wondrous than God's lightning bolts,
The artesian well fills
The sham spays' dry dugs
With love's hypogean milk.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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| Scheme | XXAX AABXBX XXAX XXAX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 398 |
| Words | 65 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4, 4 |
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