Writ In Water ' John Keats 1795 - 1821
Poetry, the gods dance
above shivers of wind.
Remembered with grace,
pain wracking words,
coughs of mortality
scrape the lungs clean.
The future consumed,
spat away - evaporating
as it lies on dusty pages.
Life a cruel twist
in the ink flowing south.
Delirious expectations
quenched with a sip of prose.
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Submitted on June 04, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 291 |
Words | 51 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 3, 2, 2 |
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