Woman in a victorian dress
I picked it up from off of dusty table top
Staring with great intensity... aghast!
Among a shallow but, haloed attic light
Discovering curiosity in a eighteen twenty two of past
There she was captured in this black of white, oddly faded photograph
With a peering vital sense to grasp
Amid this granulated mysterious background plight
That had once been abandoned but, never forgotten
Revealed a woman in absence of a certain kind
Standing in ancient hoary of Victorian dress looking quite uncommon
Her parasol, crowns over mounds of braided tress
Set the air with some note of notoriety
Underneath was shades and shadows of my aunt
A long, long lost but, greatest of the great relativities
There had been old tales told and many passed along
That she was a woman out of time but, always seen in a pair of denim pants
The years had kept her legend hidden among themselves
But, now with future technologies she will stand out yet again
With pride from behind a very special frame and glass
A treasure on display what once was an empty place of shelves
At home, upon the fire mantles next to kin, pictured in a dress at last
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABAX XBCXC DXXDXX EXXEA |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,101 |
Words | 201 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6, 5 |
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