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Life: An arrow

Pauljo Paul

Life is an arrow

Leads to the end through its means.

Wind and its deeds try to blend the arrow

And it may fall down before the end.

Past; the strength of the strings,

and force applied flew the arrow to the goal.

For the nice flight, we must be aware of sight
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Submitted on June 16, 2020

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Scheme A X A X X X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 253
Words 53
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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