Your Spirit Bereft
Nocturnal flower
In need of sleep
Your petals wilted
The count for sheep
Shoulders hunch in darkness
The dice are cast
A croupier blocking
Sun’s setting mask
Through court and courtship
Lost adrenalin runs
A jester beckoning
His joke undone
And the meadow sparse
The reaper has left
A future reharvested,
—your spirit bereft
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABA XXCX XXCX XDBD X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 353 |
Words | 58 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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