Time of Men
Time of Men
Granular and fine is the rhyme in time,
That marks the eternal ilk of kind.
The want of men within a world of sin,
Spouts a sieve of mother's milk from in.
Fraught in nakedness and innocence,
For a mind emptied of common sense,
Causes time to drift in history from within.
Upon one's life, slivered and sliced so thin.
Never to meet or clash in shadows past,
For any day's end that will never last.
Everything in life is either bought or sold.
Yet in his time, he has a story to be told.
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
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| Scheme | XXXAA XXAA BBCC |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 487 |
| Words | 98 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4 |
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