The Holocaust
I remember the bygone days
When I happen to be a boy
The comeliness of the city then
Sway'd my vision moist with joy.
I still see the rase with scorn
That cast the city like a spell
Men affrighted of the incontinent wrest
Their enlargement seem'd a fiery fell.
Gloriest valleys that were once afore
Clefted as wax before fire
Where the thrushes sang pleasant notes
Now lay they all as dunes entire.
I fretted o'er the ghastly silence
And tried to shun the noisome past
But the vision infolded as a lewd him
Stood as epitaph for the child to last.
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A city destroyed by atomic explosion
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Submitted by amitk.16129 on March 07, 2023
Modified on March 20, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA XBXB CCXC XDXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 109 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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