The Common Bluebell
Spring is flowering in your hair's madness:
classical princess; traditional dress -
stained by foreign wit's magical power.
Oh grief! Ring those common bluebells loudly,
let their musical features sing to gods;
too drunk to care for ships of friends now lost.
Personality draws shades of colour
across language; unrecognised by fools:
a jester's juggled petals crash again.
Bend over the top of freedom's chasm,
watch the view expand in pretty nowhere,
native pendulous intellect bleeds scent.
It's positively criminal; bulbous,
broad hybrids accentuate poetry;
spaced-out colloquialism's speechless.
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Submitted on September 20, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXB CXX BXX XXX ACA |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 88 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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