Blush Stained Cocoon
Bordering likeness in a moonlight trancer,
Seldom does a consonant invoke matter
or mastery of magnificance
as poetic as macabre--
That is why girls waltz with rapier,
romancing eddy doodle dandy
until he fancies them a tourniquet
so they will not be reminded--
Dulcimers placate the cirrus evening
with a tune only four bars long,
but repeated with a plucking that
not a single lady could possibly hammer--
So insects hide, exposing cover
only to steal the blood they
wrap inside themselves.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABAAXXX XXXAAXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7 |
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