Under the Moon
Under the Cresent
A black sea lies dead.
Mourning whales cry for their brothers, sisters, children.
Crabs, lobsters, deforming, dying.
All nature dies slowly
Slowly fading
Under the Moon.
A girl named Sea wrapped in a white dress crys
Begging for her sea.
She stands and drops slowly
Downward towards the dark waves.
Absorbing her as if she's part of the water.
Her life like her home, dying in the oily sea.
Her dress flows back, black with oil,
Her body washed on the shore,
Lifeless as the ocean,
She lies dead,
Under the lonely Moon.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | AABCDCEFDDFGDHIBAE |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 520 |
| Words | 96 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
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