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Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)

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The rain can't hold you in its sky
Nor the dewy look within your goodbyes
The star you sit has far flown by
And its maiden voyage crystallised

Where many saplings have long since died
Without your care to keep their silent sigh
This is our love yet still I try
To search for you within my eye

Its tether flying free from mine
And vivid colours unify
Wherein my heart awaits the nigh
of returning love upon my thigh
Still I hold on close to you and I
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Written on March 23, 2023

Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 23, 2023

Modified on April 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAB BAAA XAAAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 451
Words 91
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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