Coup de gras
Ye muted lover
Watching cat with Cheshire grin
Of my lone foot, preceded by the other
To be put upon the fence
And soon be, clinging to thy wire
'Tis your refusal of expression
A disclosure of thy heart or mind
Neither to tip the scales
Or unbalance upon a borderline
Lips so luscious, but very still
And thy deadly cobra eyes
With brilliance exposing the forgery
Of thy silky spinning lies
Thus, they are thy undoing
The coup de gras
‘Tis ends, thy exhibition
Upon the highest wire acts
Freefalling, to owner of depths
And unto thy own manipulating crafts
Thy landings ne’er do well, without my love
The harbor of my safety nets
Now, lying in a cesspool desparation
Put out, upon display
The whole world is thy witness
To your fall from lofty grace
And all that hath been required
Twas,"I love you"
Merely, but a simple phrase
With those words left unsaid
I exit center stage…
Taking my well deserving bow
And now, wearing the Cheshire grin
I turn and simply walk away
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAXA CXXX XDXD XXCX XXXX BEXX XXX XXXBE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 945 |
Words | 178 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 5 |
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