The Next Moonless Night
The chain cut again,
—the demon is loose
Deep into the night,
she hunts weaker truths
The hallway’s back stairs,
her favorite retreat
Until daylight threatens,
and her bite becomes weak
Then she staggers back wounded,
inside shadows that call
Her blood trail now leading,
to that dark lonely hall
Where the door is rechained,
and the lock padded tight
Until a hacksaw appears,
—with the next moonless night
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 20, 2016
Modified on April 28, 2023
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Scheme | XX AX XX XX XB XB AA XA X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 73 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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