The Dictum of Life
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
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Life’s Formal Pronouncement: “Like dust in the wind,/ Once thick and then thinned,/ Life, behaving as fiend,/ Is never fully weaned/ Remains ever livestream,/ Like a chimerical dream.”
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Written on January 12, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 12, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on June 23, 2022
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Scheme | ABC |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 67 |
Words | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
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