Not Crimsoned Red, Soured in Dread!



Blue as the heart that, softened, bleeds
My love is the wine, cold, I drink
And from her veins, hot, my mind concedes
To Her and Her alone, fear, my heart is linked
For in her veins, stirred, of redest red
And in her heart, shallow, of bluest blue,
There lies the death, around us, on us both
A pain our love no other chord can strike
My heart, her icon, bereft of iconicity, a ‘classicized’ dead
Heart! Blue, not crimson red, soured in dread!
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Submitted by mijena6 on April 27, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABACDEFGDD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 438
Words 85
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

Jeffrey Lynn Naylor

Retired Professor of Literary Criticism, Philosophy, and Religion. Father of 6, grandfather of 6. A lover of all life has to offer. I have traveled the world, lived and worked among many cultures discovering that all people are essentially bound by a common thread. more…

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