Purity

Bruce Davidson Culpepper 1969 (Nashville, TN)



The purity behind the eyes
Lingers where the sadness dies
It finds a place to hide away
And come again on one dark day.

For purity knows it's place
It hides in an innocent face
It only comes forth to bear
When nothing else is there.
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Written on March 05, 1998

Submitted by brucedculpepper on September 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB CCDD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 233
Words 48
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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