Portrait of Love Lost
Sounds of wolves at the door,
echoing forth through tarnished halls,
a house no longer called home,
memories run rampant,
razing corridors of a broken heart,
remains of a body once warm with life,
now just bitter dust,
it enters a raging frenzy,
this beast left alone so long,
seeking a loving hand,
a solace that ended with death,
until it discovers the portrait,
perfect image of the comforts Death stole,
and the monster, the lonely child,
weeps.
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Submitted on March 20, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 78 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
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