Moon (phase 4)
Holly Szurczynski 1977
Move slow, change your pace,
smoothly, calmly, into fourth place.
Differently, you sit still and quiet,
come out of your body, fly by it.
Be a bird, close to this moon,
haze, it will clear soon.
Open like a show to start,
the clouds step away, they part.
Better this phase knows your pain,
hazey, to see the moon thru the rain.
Total eclipse, where do you abide,
I need your touch, do not hide.
Reveal your guidence, as you circle my sky,
each night when you rain, you cry.
But don't shed a tear, don't fade away,
you are the ghost of my day.
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Submitted on October 04, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABCDDEEFFGGHHII |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 527 |
Words | 105 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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