It All Feels Staged
Beverly Laskowski 1986 (Texas)
March 24Ready to quit
but the stage is lit.
memorize
your lines.>
Heart says "Improvise."
So I sit
in disappointment
as an audience yells
"She doesn't fit!"
Still inst instructed
to relinquish it.
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Written on March 16, 2024
Submitted by Bev11 on March 16, 2024
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Scheme | AA BXB AXXA XA |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 200 |
Words | 41 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 4, 2 |
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