Aweary.

Marietta Holley 1836 (United States of America) – 1926



The clouds that vex the upper deep
Stay not the white sail of the moon;
And lips may moan, and hearts may weep,
The sad old earth goes rolling on.
  
O'er smiling vale, and sighing lake,
One shadow cold is overthrown;
And souls may faint, and hearts may break,
The sad old earth goes rolling on.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme axaB cxcB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 288
Words 57
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Marietta Holley

Marietta Holley was an American humorist who used satire to comment on US society and politics Her successful series of Samantha books feature the character of Samantha Allen a wise small-town woman or crackerbox philosopher who goes on adventures in urban America and Europe and her foolish husband Josiah Allen Holley was so skilled with satire and so popular that she was often compared to Mark Twain and Edgar Nye more…

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