Not Hard Nor Fast
Breaking through the dialectic,
good and evil behind
Beyond to where the sky breaks clean,
and time does not apply
Escaping from the either/or,
my mind now free at last
Lost in the perpetual moment,
—rules not hard nor fast
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 10, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 44 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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