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Taken in the night

Eric Slabaugh

Free verse
Taken like a theft in the night
Fear got you from the moment it took hold
It consumed your soul you were trapped with no escape from your own life it sure feel like I was taken in the night

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Taken like a theft in the night Fear got you from the moment it took hold It consumed your soul you were trapped with no escape from your own life it sure feel like I was taken in the night

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Submitted by erics.65287 on June 13, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABA
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 187
Words 40
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
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