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Conditions Of Living

Ben Jonson 1572 (Westminster) – 1637 (Westminster)

Living a whole life has three conditions:
absorbing work which demands and brings fulfilment,
a group of friends with whom to exchange minds,
and a full love to be lost in all the time.
  
Of these I have the easier two,
but lack the third in lacking you.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX AA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 250
Words 49
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 2
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