Gomorrah
Out come the stars, behind the clouds
As pale white angels recant the shroud
Of willow branches, rain, and fog
As midnight's chill consumes the bog
A whisper, barely insect's breath
Had shoved her in, to gray-green death
Beneath the stars I cry the most
In mourning for the gray-green ghost
My faithful love of thirteen years,
Buried beneath the gray-green tiers
of ice and snow, of pillared salt
She could not stay, it was my fault
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXAA BBCC XXDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 421 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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