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If Words Have Eyes

Jamal Upshaw 1954 (NYC)

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If words have eyes
They look for distant shores
Between the land and the sea
Maybe the edge of this heaven, to be
Words look through your distant eyes
This paper and pen shall look beyond these stars
This time, we know, the eyes want more
and surely, these words have eyes
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Written on October 29, 2022

Submitted by ggolden9 on October 29, 2022

Modified by ggolden9 on November 12, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCADEA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 272
Words 52
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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