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Silence (Senryu/Haiku)



Huge waves lap inside;
Of --- the ocean-of-silence,
That I had gulped down.
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Submitted on July 07, 2017

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Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 73
Words 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3

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