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Cursive

Payton Hayes

Free verse
As you wrote my name in
cursive with your tongue
I saw explosions behind my eyelids,
I heard a melody that was
so blissfully new, yet familiar,
I tasted lightning and saw colors
that for now have no name here,
and only exist in that realm.
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Written on 2020

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 239
Words 49
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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