Escaping Into Verse
Escaping into verse,
the base of the tower rumbled
the ground beneath was shaken
with new cracks within its walls
Escaping into verse,
all towering deception crumbled
as the self-appointed jumped and fell
landing prostrate, and so small
Escaping into verse,
the mime shouted out enabled
his silent thunder, raining down
with a message now to scald
Escaping into verse,
a new steeple built and stabled
its bell now ringing a lyric toll,
--- death knell to those recalled
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 25, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 492 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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