River
Your wrathful current rushes
through the narrow gorge
and past boulders it brushes
where your destructive path is forged
People are swept by your rage
trapped in your undertow
where only death will assuage
and death, you will bestow
You continue through all this
until you plummet into a lake
so serene, so sound, it is bliss.
But clouds take you back, stormy and opaque
And the cycle will reprise
without any demise.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX ABAB CDCD EE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 404 |
Words | 73 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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