Flowers for the Lady
I'd pick flowers for her:
Small, bright ones, pink and white,
and tie them with the worn cord of a
fading bookmark cut from some forgotten work.
And if I placed them in a french paper box
among pages of poetry, sheets of music,
and a small, woven chain,
would it be delicate enough to show
how she enthralls me,
or would I need to continually
pour my soul to the page,
bind it in words,
and hand it daily in quiet, fragile pieces
until I loved her completely?
Perhaps both is best.
The small, tangible tokens given so readily,
show my inner heart the ease of loving her.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXXX XXXXBBXXXB XBA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 109 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 10, 3 |
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