Prisoners Of Time
In three thousand years of philosophical thought
what in fact’s been changed
Has a sorrow been healed or steeple been built
resulting from the game
The essence, the theory, the logic, the proof
all couplets lacking rhyme
In the end all victims chained unto themselves
—prisoners of time
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 25, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 328 |
Words | 52 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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