Escape
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
When foxes eat the last gold grape,
And the last white antelope is killed,
I shall stop fighting and escape
Into a little house I'll build.
But first I'll shrink to fairy size,
With a whisper no one understands,
Making blind moons of all your eyes,
And muddy roads of all your hands.
And you may grope for me in vain
In hollows under the mangrove root,
Or where, in apple-scented rain,
The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 430 |
Words | 80 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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