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Water's Edge

Jamal Upshaw 1954 (NYC)

Free verse
standing near
the deepest part of
the water's edge,
and peering
into restless
sea, my life
searched for
perfection

so, I drank the
potion and slashed
my wrist and jumped
from the highest cliff,
to greet my own reflection
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Written on September 08, 2021

Submitted by gregory_g on September 08, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXXXXA XXXXA
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 219
Words 39
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 5
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