The bystander
I am the one who looks the other way
Watching the actors
Like the baseless fabrics of vision
Faded substantial pageants
I stand in the square
Brave and forlon
With grief too sad for songs
Weeping for our generation
For the mountain of casuistry
Heaped over their heads
I am the prophet
Whose tears are vain?
Palely loitering in broad daylight
Yet being too happy in my happiness
Walk in beauty like a knight
Whose innocence in love below
And above is at peace.
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAX BAXABX XXCXCXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 444 |
Words | 84 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 7 |
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