Courage.



I thank thee, Life, that though I be
This poor and broken thing to see,
I still can look with pure delight
Upon thy rose, the red, the white.
  
And though so dark my own demesne,
My neighbor's fields so fair and green,
I thank thee that my soul and I
Can fare along that grass and sky.
  
Yet am I weak! Ere I be done.
Give me one spot that takes the sun!
Give me, ere I uncaring rest.
One rose, to wear it on my breast!
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme AABB CCDD CCEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 410
Words 90
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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