Lines Rule
Lines rule
A line in the dirt
It stops us dead in our tracks
Before we make our everyday mistakes
Grainy, muddy and effective
A line set in our minds
Tempted to cross before it's to late
The feeling of fluster
Invisible, stressful and confusing
A line set by superiors
Holding us back from greatness
Pushing to the edge till mother superior cracks
Intense, fearful and sheltered
Lines rule our life in better & worse
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX XXXX XXAX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 403 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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