The Innocents
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This poem speaks of our fragility especially in times of conflict (as is happening now in the Middle East and Ukraine), and yet how we find comfort and some light from words, either written, spoken or sung.
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Written on October 26, 2023
Submitted by edfwm2013 on October 27, 2023
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| Scheme | ABCDEFGG |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 52 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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