Pandora's Other Box
Contents of an empty box
It overflows with space
It stores the one remaining hope
Of the entire human race
Within its confines lie would-be hopes
Nothing tangible, simply dreams
Mankind's only hope to survive
And in our eyes it gleams
The box, it opens, I look inside
From the emptiness flies a dove
It tells us how to save ourselves
By remembering how to love
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Submitted on April 27, 2016
Modified on May 01, 2023
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Scheme | X A X A X B X B X C X C |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 349 |
Words | 66 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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