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A Song Of Summer Days

Virna Sheard 1862 (Cobourg) – 1943 ( Toronto)

As pearls slip off a silken string and fall into the sea,
These rounded summer days fall back into eternity.
  
Into the deep from whence they came; into the mystery -
At set of sun each one slips back as pearls into the sea.
  
They are so sweet - so warm and sweet - Love fain would hold them fast:
He weeps when through his finger tips they slip away at last.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA AA BB
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 357
Words 74
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2
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Virna Sheard

Virginia Sheard (April 24, 1862 – February 22, 1943) was a Canadian poet and novelist. She also wrote under the name Stanton Sheard. more…

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