Utmost Devotion
Turning saints into disease
The chemicals between
Brief is a candles flame
As if never seen
A burning cherub guides
The offspring of a dream
I knew you like a mother
Does the child she weans
Of her force, of her life
Rise my secular priest
My heart a banquet table
My love the pendulous feast
However omnipresences
Has a cold degree
To infect like the virus
Fast consuming me
Time has laid you waste
But your spirits here
Within my burning blood
Among my pernicious tears
A thousand rosaries
Perpetuates the ghost
The virus permeates
Within its faithful host.
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXB XXXA XCXC ADXD XXXX AEXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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