A still night
A gentle town of yonder
The calm creeps in, faster
The still winds never seemed to falter
My mind can never station,
Station in place.
It’s not something I can master,
Not something I can do faster,
My mind only seems to wander;
A bird unbound.
In the tranquility of the dark
Lo! There is no bark!
Yet my eyes don’t falter,
Something I can’t alter.
And there I lay
Lay in shame
Oh, how I will suffer in the morning,
Oh, how for sleep I have a yearning…
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Written on April 26, 2022
Submitted by omarsumon1030 on April 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 8 |
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