Laid Bare
You have to be naked
inside a Poem
Exposed in its limelight,
a baby new born
Starving the doubt
by feeding the fear
Everything revealed
—your back to the wall
(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 19, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 178 |
Words | 33 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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