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Light Inside A Casing

Joseph Baird 2003 (United States)

The light inside a casing,
so pure.
The smaller the casing,
Increased purity.

To take the purity,
considered grim.
Those chosen,
to steal the purity.
Considered not the light,
but the undertaking.
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Scheme AXAB BXXBXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 187
Words 32
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 6
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