For the Godfather
A ragged choir of crows and mockingbirds
Storms into the morning.
Where do they hale from, these precentors of the day?
What is the reason for their peremptory
Disturbance of our sleep?
They are harbingers of God’s shocking words
To us all, adorning
The staff that we must scale along our temporal way,
Admonitors to mind us of the history
That we must ever keep.
[Dedicated to SGC]
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDE ABCDEB |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 68 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6 |
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