Circe



Go ahead, put up your walls again
and turn to the sea.
No one can hear the lies in a storm.
Casualties of our own siren-song;
lethal lullaby.
Our Odysseus swept away.
Wooden half-humans bury us all among the wreckage of the legend we gave our lives to.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 246
Words 48
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7

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