Iron Maiden

Leo Long 1986 (Durban)



Bewitched,
and by your beauty captivated
A voluntary slave
Bound in fetters of love

Compelled,
Like the street sweepers daughter
Eagerly I step into your chamber
My will chained, devoted

Turning,
Your eyes like fiery coals fall upon me
Wooed into your steely shroud
Your warmth like the brazen bull it surrounds me

My conscience divided
Dislocated on the Pendulum
Whispering-nothings pierce me through
the Spanish tickler scourges out all resistance

Fiercely flogged in the stocks of your passion
Water boarded by my tears
Scorched in the heat of the moment
My will flayed away by a thousand cuts

My heart broken on the wheel of fate
I surrender, i hold nothing back
 “I’ll confess” I scream
“I love you!”

“love hurts”
I hear you say, as you turn away
And my heart with the Spanish spider is ripped out
Paraded on a spike, for the world to see

Even now,
With my head held high, on the heretics fork
Burned at the stake by the fire you’ve kindled within
I am consumed with you
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Submitted by leol.15970 on May 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XAAB XCXC BXDX XXXX XXXD XXXC XXXD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 961
Words 176
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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