Being
Svetlana Stojkovska 1973 (Skopje)
How one dies
Through a durbin, in observation of their own life
Somewhere out there, at the farther unrevealed shore of the existence
Separated from what it should be
By a single step,
But also by some untouchable eternity,
And some stoned space
And some muted rambling
How one dies
In shivering
And in absence of courage
But what if to be oneself
Means only - to be,
And not within the times,
And not within the space
And not within the speech
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Submitted by heruvim on April 19, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Axxbxbcd Adx xbxcx |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 3, 5 |
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