I Kneel And I Pray
Will the words come,
will the words go
Are they forever,
how do I know
What do I think,
what do I feel
Memory escapes,
a spoke off the wheel
Written in blood,
spoken in rhyme
Forever to echo,
forever sublime
Daffodils scatter,
a wolf howls at bay
Nighttime has answered,
—I kneel and I pray
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 15, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XA BA XC XC XD AD BE XE X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 331 |
Words | 60 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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