Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXV
My childhood, then, had passed a mystery
Shrouded by death, my boyhood a shut thing.
The passion of my soul as it grew free
With growing youth, a bird with broken wing,
Knew nothing of its strength to dare or do,
Or, if it dreamed of battle still to come,
That was its secret hidden in the blue
Of life's great vault of tears which was its doom,
A duty of revenge some day for blood.
Enough! You know I held me from the press
To whom base things are nothing, that I stood
Parted from this world's weekday wickedness
By a whole legend of romance sublime,
Perhaps by the dead virtue of a crime.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABABCDCEFGHIJJ |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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