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
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 744
Words 131
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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