Life
(Grateful to poet C. T. Heart, my friend)
Life is dead shell
Rotten and spreading bad smell
Who will take that
Flickering lantern of winter night
Put out in the dark
Even then remorse wakes up
Always lifeless
But stone is still valuable
Alive over ages
Life is glittering rain particle
Gradually driven
At last into soil
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X AAX XXX XBX BXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 308 |
Words | 57 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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