Worn Sonnet
Consider yourself on the tip of my tongue
Daring to be told and toxic to taste
To swallow the words and account as waste
Would injure my mouth until it grew numb
Notice me residing under your thumb
Violently push and crush me into paste
Scrape the remains to colour me effaced
Thriving under fingernails among scum
I mill with edges to form an indent
And fashion your flesh so I can sprawl
Dismiss me when your pressed palms repent
In spite of deep seeping cuts that I crawl
Richly I’ll recall this as time well spent
To be caressing your bare skin at all
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Written on 2021
Submitted by KayeBrack on July 06, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAABBAAB CDCDCD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 105 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
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