Lasting impression
I walk on the beach and smell the water
fresh and salty it is
on my head a diving mask
waiting for me to use
I bend over and tip with my finger
some water on it to taste
I make a long face, disgusting
not so clever of me
I walk into the water and put my mask on
slide underwater and look around
I see all kind of beautiful fish
in the colours of the rainbow
I cannot open my mouth to gasp
when this beauty is hitting me
I quickly swim to the surface
astonished and dazzled as I am
I tread water for a while to
give the impressions a place
while I am listening to
the calmly rippling water
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Submitted by Jet-Rood on July 28, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | AXXX AXXB XXXX XBXX CXCA |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 569 |
| Words | 124 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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