Daydreaming in sepia and monochrome



This wisteria bedecking my memories
Belongs around someone's front door.
The hawthorn blossom flowering in my thoughts
Should be in a hedgerow out on a moor.

The daffodils blooming in memory
Could flourish in a pot on a sill.
The primroses populating my conscience
Would look better on the bank of a rill.

The periwinkles peopling my brain cells
Ought to be planted 'neath a sycamore's boughs.
What good are hollyhocks in my skull?
Put them outside a farmer's house.

I've planned many different gardens
And they flower now and again.
The soil's not as rich in fact
As that which I keep in my brain.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XAXA XXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 583
Words 106
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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