Adversaries
He held his hands like plastic -
his vestments the finer
calling of his trade,
vocation as modern strummer
of Nature's laws
Engineer in brief -
wine glass in hand
bestowing the more salient points
of mawkish disbelief with
cigarette to numb the spine.
The Reverend
looked down on fire,
caught papryus smoke in the bellows
of his chest,
made laundry of
the Plumber's intellect -
tore savage parchment
from the soft cheesecutter's
contemporary breath.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXABXXXXX XAXXXXXBX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 76 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 9 |
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