To Guide Me Within
Dreams carry me across
a mysterious land
Where the voice of my fathers
so gently commands
It echoes now softly
in words only sung
A joyous recital
my soul rewoven and spun
I never can stay there
I’ve begged till I weep
Until with barely a whisper
I’m roused from my sleep
But as darkness then falls
on my world once again
A new dream will come calling
to guide me within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 31, 2016
Modified on March 10, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XX XX AX XX XB XB XX XX A |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 398 |
Words | 76 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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