Dirty Dishes
She promised herself that she will no longer live
content with the pain of loving you.
So, she guards her heart and thunders it over with steel wool
to scrub the grime
from your pot named
Soul.
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Submitted on March 09, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABCDEF |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 188 |
| Words | 37 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
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