Mea Culpa
Living within the madness
the echoes come and go
Channeling everything left unsaid
in phrases yet to know
Time suspended, barriers down
the walls come crashing in
Each voice a memory which haunts sublime
—that unforgiven sin
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 04, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA XBXB X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 253 |
Words | 42 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
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