I
I, Bard, believer of dawns and sunsets,
I walk the path of wanting to love,
crazy tied to a thousand designs and to so many beings
that it is no longer enough to say that I long to BE.
I, Quixote lose in La Mancha of my domain,
I insist on attacking windmills to solve disputes,
too many to undertake to untwist its tangles
and see to assemble the armor of the sciences.
I don't know if I do well with what I propose,
to return to the fire and to the flames
to stoke the fire and jump with them...very smug,
a lot of firewood to pile up and watch it burn
and in the heat of the gathering of the spark,
to love the good things of dreaming very profoundly.
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Destiny
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Written on October 10, 2020
Submitted by aveviajera on November 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXA XXXX XXX XXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 145 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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