In Virtue I Sin
It was Hemingway
early
And now Dickinson
late
Those early
exposures
The trail of
my wake
No bar left
unvisited
Or brawl left
unfought
No school that could
answer
Their dialectic
corrupt
Now this corner
I sit in
Both welcomes
and warms
And the thoughts
it retriggers
Require no movement,
just form
What I once had
looked over
I now look
within
From this chair
that I captain
Where in virtue,
—I sin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 31, 2015
Modified on March 10, 2023
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Scheme | XA BC AD XX EC EC XF XX FG XX XD XX XF XG XB XG X |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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