Silver
Joaquin: paint-besotted at sixteen.
The color silver was your favorite --
it had the craved-for, biting glint
of a dagger dizzying your brain,
twisting as it mixed and chopped
your few surviving thoughts,
which floated, glittering,
in an icy silver mist.
Your classic, sculpted nose,
bearing a single dot of silver
smaller than a dime, expelled
the smell you struggled to breathe in.
And your eyes drowned in a sea of silver.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X XXXXXXX XAXX A |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 413 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 4, 1 |
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