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Breaking patterns

Olive

There was a glass
I watched life through
There was a way
I walked and knew

Somehow the glass
Has slipped away
It’s not not the same
To watch this way

The colour's changed
My eyes in tears
I’ve been asleep
So many years
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Submitted by hb on July 10, 2021

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Scheme ABCB ACXC XXXX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 211
Words 44
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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