Again
Again
Where are you now?
Have you run away?
With some stray
You met in the Bowery
Did he charm you?
Did he disarm you?
With his claim of kinship
With some celebrity
Or another
Or have you bothered
To get yourself fixed up to
Some good smack tonight
Praying on another saint
I've exhausted all candles
Dried up wax is hard
To scrape off of linoleum
Let her come in to my door
Just one more time
Again on my knees
I'm quite sure one day my pleas
Are going to fall on God's deaf ears
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAAB CCXB XXCX XXXX XXDDX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 459 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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