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Shroud

Jennifer Quentin

Snowflakes Shimmer
Almost Dawn
Crystal Flake
Too Winter Born
As I sit and
Watch this Scene
The City Street
Seems almost clean
I feel like
A Little Child
Big Brown Stars
Flowing Wild
In awe of such
A Frozen Sight
Glistening in
Dawn's Early Light
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Submitted on August 17, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGFHIJIKLML
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 229
Words 45
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
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