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

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABAAXXX XXXAAXB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 478
Words 82
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 7

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