Bridges



cry me a river
build a bridge
and get over it

he said,

but if only he knew how many
oceans I’d cried for him and
how many bridges I’d burned
trying to get over us
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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 168
Words 39
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 4

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