Keifer



Come here and let your heart be humble;
Quickened while the dark skies rumble,
Thickened by the devil's food --
The blood that moves in me toward you.

Commensurate but undivided
Angels' attentions reminded
Popes and Pharisees of chided
Childhood's from whence they came.

A cherished dogma, once remanded
To one sect is now provided
Freely to all holy men to worship here
Upon which hill they gather near.

I've never seen a creature move
With greater violence of action
Than upon these tufts of grass
Your formless body runs to me.

My wicked spirit 'gainst thine holy
Fills my corpse with mortal fear.
"Hysteria!" the manics cry
My heart's condition to defy
But in two beats, it says "Keifer"
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Written on June 07, 2021

Submitted by secretina on July 13, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

38 sec read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAXX BCBX BCXD XXXE EDFFX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 695
Words 123
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 5

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