Poor Earth
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
It is not heaven: bitter seed
Leavens its entrails with despair
It is a star where dragons breed:
Devils have a footing there.
The sky has bent it out of shape;
The sun has strapped it to his wheel;
Its course is crooked to escape
Traps and gins of stone and steel.
It balances on air, and spins
Snared by strong transparent space;
I forgive it all its sins;
I kiss the scars upon its face.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 396 |
Words | 78 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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