Lover's Song
A girl, a poet
Wrote to me from a far country
Requesting that I reciprocate
In my kind of verse.
I could not write in her own language back
But nibbled in extemporary variation back
The poet's two letters of her name
Subjoined to a slip of verse.
She sent me a poem
Codefied and calibrated
Except the nakedness of her dreams
Locked in the dark
Beneath the womb of thoughts
In a poetic beauty of excellent craftmanship.
Like a seed yet to sprout.
Soon, she declares
She understands me better
Who too can dress old words new
Then she transmutes me into a poem
Singing it to the nod of heads.
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXA BBXA CXXXXXX XXXCX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 7, 5 |
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