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Let Them Eat Cake

Brooke

Left splintered beneath
Heavy sheets of grief you bequeathed
A never ending sleet of torment
Torrential in its fervor
I can hold no further
Swallowed all the pain you gave
Spat it back and baked a cake
You wonder what it'd take to break
A hollowed shell hasn't much to tell
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Submitted by brooke_r on March 23, 2023

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDDEFFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 273
Words 51
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
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