The Final Lie
Numbers have a lasting smell
while figures have a taste
Shapes can make an ancient sound
whose feelings stay untraced
Intuition grants a wish
to those who rebegin
Dimension in the blackest hole
new dwarf stars from within
Counting up or counting down
deception stays the same
What you gain or what you lose
redundant in the game
Endings come and endings go
ephemerally despised
Until the sacrificial lamb
—bleats out the final lie
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 14, 2023
Modified on March 09, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XBXB BCXC XXXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 471 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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