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Your Swinging Door

Kurt Philip Behm

I answered with love,
you questioned with
anger and pain

I then held you close,
but your eyes
failed me again

I told you truly,
as our wishes
dropped to the floor

Then you asked again,
and my heart,
—your swinging door

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 04, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXA XXB AXB X
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 245
Words 46
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
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