A bucket for the depths (Sonnet)



An old wooden bucket, bound with iron rusty
plunged in a well of stone, tied to an iron chain
with old wheels and pulleys that you can hear complain
in the depths of the pit all along its galleries

Scattered throughout the depths of our countries
of these secular wells, many legends remain
The nightmarish beings hanging around their pain
and the innocent souls vanished mysteriously

Sometimes came from the depths, at night we seem to hear,
when suddenly  the wind calms down between two gusts,
the groaning of a beast in the grip of a curse

But once the bucket out, look inside without fear
In the water only  moon and stars will appear
Beings of the well are nothing more than artists
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Submitted on September 26, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBC CBBA XXX DDX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 675
Words 124
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

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