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DREARY DAY

By Dr. Theodore Arthur Pinnock

The day wanned to the loneliness of space.
It slept in a petty door of time,
With tired walls enclosing this crude dreary day,
To be all alone,
Never grasping the food of togetherness,
Only that of extreme, haunting loneliness.


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Submitted by dr_pinnock on November 21, 2023

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Scheme XXXXAA X
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 249
Words 51
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 1
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