Paradis Perdue
Paradise is fleeting
When chained to dark foundations
Underneath such lifeless stones,
And hidden from the Graces.
That temple was your fury
All pompous-full of doom
Created by the filaments
You wrought to always bloom
Some men are boys in hiding
The gods they claim to be
Are equal o the greediness
In lost civility
Within the cornerstone
I poured the malice I
Could conjure for the surety
That I would never cry
Just as noon arose
And victory was near
The dust engulfed the light
And Time bethrothed us fear
The ruins of it all
I excavate to find
What was shattered then
By the worse of crimes.
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXX CDXD ACBC XECE XFXF XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 109 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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