The Unloved to His Beloved
William Alexander Percy 1885 (Greenville) – 1942
Could I pluck down Aldebaran
And haze the Pleiads in your hair
I could not add more burning to your beauty
Or lend a starrier coldness to your air.
If I were cleaving terrible waters
With death ahead on the visible sands
I could not turn and stretch my hands more wildly,
More vainly turn and stretch to you my hands.
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Submitted by halel on July 15, 2020
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| Scheme | XABA XCBC |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 310 |
| Words | 61 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
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