Insomnia
It is 2:00 A.M.
Blanketing the night ---
The quietness sleeps,
Catnapping trees, shiver with cold
Hundreds of sonnets ---
Cuddle, on the lips of silence,
The eyelids of every thought are heavy
The roads of the whole city ---
Have forty winks,
The lights, electrify with sleep
The hotels and restaurants ---
Are deserted,
Churches, mosques, temples look lonely
Everything and everybody, by now ---
Might have slept, a sound sleep
Aaah! Why I am still awake?
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Submitted on June 07, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | X XXX XXA AXB XXA XBX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 441 |
Words | 80 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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