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Sorrowful Life

Gracie Miller

Sorrow will be my life,
And sorrow will be my companion.
Sorrow will see me through to death,
And sorrow will be my death.
Sorrow will be my only friend,
And sorrow will be close to me always.
Sorrow is in me,
And sorrow will gently see me to sleep.
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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on January 20, 2022

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Scheme ABCCDEFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 249
Words 57
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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