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Still

Jordan Phillips

My breath leaves a trail in the chill of midnight
The shadowed earth painted in pallid moonlight
The wind sings a song lacking rhythm or rhyme
I’m here all alone in this stillness of mine

I whistle along to the angular tune
That rises and falls like the Nyiri dunes
the song staggers on irregardless of time
While here all alone in this stillness of mine
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Submitted by Jordan123phillips on January 20, 2023

Modified on April 12, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABC XXBC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 358
Words 68
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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