Castle at Night
Darkness falls
but the city isn’t ready to sleep.
The tourists retreat to restaurants and hotels
and the students crack their books
maybe.
Oh the history that passed beneath your crumbled walls!
Built, burnt, rebuilt and burnt again
and scavenged until picturesque
May you stand as long as the Neckar flows.
About this poem
Inspired years ago during my stay in Germany
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Submitted by KevinMarston on June 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 363 |
Words | 51 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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