The Olive Tree
Against a bloody fence
She leant so tired
Surrounded and imprisoned
by thorny barbed wires
Upon her old branches
memories were carved
of people who resisted
of kids who starved
Feeling the near danger
The sky's suffocation
to again rain blood
without hesitation
and she once witnessed
the uprising of stones
and the cowardice of enemies
those behind thrones
She kept her identity
The green Olive Tree
standing tall in Palestine
The land of the free
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Submitted on February 21, 2017
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| Scheme | A X X X X B X B X X X X X X A C C X C |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 429 |
| Words | 76 |
| Stanzas | 19 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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