The Choice
Upon the open deck I sang
Never before such a sweet melody
It moved and swayed with the wind
That is such; I will never forget
With juvenile wants
I do move on
As anyone else would not care
To hear my sad song
Yet the birds echo
That which I sing
And the trees shake
At the mention of my melody
I look in the water
As it waves around my voice
And yet I care to not
Stay too long
As I peer closer past those haunting waves
I see my image as clear as day
And it reflected back
For it spoke to me
The words came as a spray; without fear they say:
“I am the illusion of something great.”
It seems to me
This is the road I did not take
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Submitted on February 06, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX XXXB XXCA XXXB XDXA DXAC |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 137 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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