Who's Counting
Born with a cry we enter this stage
a blank page,
scriptless and perfect as light
With a wrinkled gray sponge,
actions are absorbed
forming, shaping the future
with the unseen
Each path taken reveals
threads of changing color
And we choose the thread of our weave
Advancing thru choice
to a pattern more defined
never knowing,
Who's Counting.
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Submitted on August 14, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AAXXXBX XBX XXCC |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 329 |
Words | 59 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 3, 4 |
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