Spirit of Winter
My world is filled with pain ,
How my heart breaks apart.
I am the spirit of lonely winter,
Upon a withered tree in snowy dark.
I have seen into night's deep,
Where shadows cast long loom.
I am a crow perched up high,
A specter of hinted coming gloom.
With icy mist and slow breath,
And a chill inside my bones.
I sense awaiting fear and eminent death,
Knowing that I'm quite alone.
I see more than I should,
In the quiet of my reservation.
A glint of moonlight on feathers,
Held together by sheer imagination.
In the silent frosted still,
A baren wasteland wanting thaw.
I fly from branch and bow,
Through echoes of frozen call.
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Submitted on January 29, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX XAXA BXBX XCXC XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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