Effigies



Our senses fashion effigies
Of a dead past, useless as guides
Where strict finality resides.  
Mute phantoms drowned in icy seas.  
But halved funereal diptychs show
Reflections of the things to be.  
The not yet displayed in symmetry,
A future mirrored long ago.   
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Submitted by DavidPlantinga on November 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAABCCB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 270
Words 50
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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