Different Story



a candle must be dispersing light before it has stopped burning

a bleeding heart must cease not growing

red petals

dark whisperings

the river flows holding memories

and sorry, if each of them has stopped doing so

then, life here, is a different story.
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Submitted by quaidzaman57 on January 19, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A A X X X
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 261
Words 54
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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