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Do you know of Cuckoo?

Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)

Limerick
An overflowing river dry:
from where was stemmed the weather eye,
the king of all that is dark,
bolts that drive many mad stark,
and the quilt of a starry sky.
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Written on March 10, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 159
Words 35
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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  • Symmetry60
    Symmetry60
    P.S. I know of the cuckoo because his sits in the White House ripping my country apart as we speak. LoL
    LikeReply1 month ago
  • Symmetry60
    Symmetry60
    So friggin poignant and profound. Not sure where you got the smarts from, but praise be to the Gods of brilliance.
    LikeReply1 month ago

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