The Sting
The night settled all over me
The turbulence started reining me
Then my eyes reddened with sore
The light started fading with ache
The piercing pain spread down the spine
Through the column where life emplace
Crawling like venom filled scorpion
Chilling the muscles down to my shin
The scorpion spreads its pincers wide
The sting steadied for inflicting twinge
The sweetness of pain, long waited for
Then will slowly spread through the blur
It stung me hard with passion and love
It chilled me like an icicle struck rude
The shrill aroused my frozen muscles
Then awakened the dormant vessels
A drop of tear trickled on the lips
And tasted the salt like nectar of gods
The breath which held my turbulent mind
That let the passions of life unwind.
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Submitted on November 19, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABX XCXX XXBX XXCC CCDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 131 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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