Death Do Us Part



A bride on her wedding day
Usually adorned in white
Walks down the aisle
Adorned in black
A veil of red
With a ring of silver

The day she should cry tears of joy
Is the day she cries tears of pain
For the man she shall wed
Is not the man she desires

She reaches the alter
After what seems like years
She politely does as the minister asks
The audience believes she has accepted her fate

The man in white asks her if she takes this man as her husband
She looks up at him with tear filled eyes
Pulls a knife from her bouquet of bleeding white roses
"I do not
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Submitted on April 07, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXAB XXAX BXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 539
Words 114
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 4, 4

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