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Life’s Elixir

Boutheina Boughnim

Cherish your grief deep within
As a bottled up elixir;
The throbbing ache orchestrates
The melody of pain; livening stir,
The unnerving blur of vicissitudes
Takes on its full meaning

With the satin touch of pain…
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Submitted on February 01, 2015

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXAXX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 208
Words 36
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 1
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Boutheina Boughnim

I am a Tunisian Lecturer of English literature. Writing (poetry), I do not dare call my writings poems, is therapeutic to me. more…

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