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The Poet's Refrain

Sun Ra

Oh how I long in pain...
 Of the Poet's refrain...
 It's repetitive in time..
 It sounds like a terrible whine
 The Poet's Refrain...
 Oh the pain...
 The Poet's Refrain...
 Always the same...
 The Poet's Refrain

By: ©William J Dorsey Jr. (Copyright) October 30, 2013
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Submitted by matiasp.29602 on April 10, 2014

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Scheme aaxxAaAxA x
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 259
Words 44
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 1
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