Dilettalia
You dip your toe into poetry’s waters,
but never seem to get wet
Pretense showing, your measure unknowing,
the surface as good as it gets
Into the depths where fear leaves a shadow,
you stare with eyes conjoined
The moment upon you, time has been stopped,
to dive—your soul purloined
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 14, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 322 |
| Words | 54 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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