Wanting Only To Rhyme
Before I returned to writing prose,
verse took my pen by decree
Days fully structured and measured on end,
tonight,
—words yearned to be free
The story cerebral, its plot bellicose,
new music pushing forward in time
Past a story inscribed for others, not I,
my true voice,
—wanting only to rhyme
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 12, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XA XXA XB XXB A |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 330 |
Words | 56 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 3, 1 |
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