Cause
Must we invent an answer sent
to fill a vacuum?
Science absent, no knowledge spent,
folklore can assume.
The things we know, despite the flow,
have now taken place.
What's left to go is yet to show:
scenario's best case.
The uncaused cause is cause for pause;
from whence has it come?
The canon laws applause a clause
some bow to succumb.
Dead reckoning is beckoning
the globe-shrugged Atlas.
The rhumb bearing is sum sharing
points on a compass.
The "kettledrum" booms with a thrum
in rhythmic rumpus.
Riffraff sound scum, mindlessly numb;
basis of fracas.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH BDFH |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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