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Broken Cuckoo

Traian06

Here
I am

squeezing
my soul
in words
again.

Naive,
I thought
it was all done

that I could
turn
to you
my back

brave
and sure
that, that was it

i've put full stop.

The cost?

my native tongue...

Thus here
am I

a stray orfan
your language
had to adopt.
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Written on August 05, 2022

Submitted by Traian06 on August 06, 2022

Modified on April 08, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX XXXB XXX XXXX XXX X X AX BXX
Characters 263
Words 71
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 3, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3
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