Dandelines
Put your lips together,
And gently blow,
I'll fall apart, And drift dreamily away,
I'll find new love elsewhere,
But always with the memory,
That you last held me,
Until the fateful moment,
You deliberately sent me,
Disintegrating,
Into the wind.
About this poem
To those who've 'blown me off'...
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Written on 2002
Submitted by tomtowle on July 26, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X X X X A A X A X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 237 |
Words | 41 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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