the crowded train
half attended not engaged
an image of a bent page on a crowded train
then i stared nearby to this little girl
with a lazy eye as though incisioned
through her lids these deflated plump
pupils stared unvisually
my sympathetic smile collided
while her grandmother-so it seemed-
held her tightly with her pallid cracked finger tips
and she spoke tugging on the child's hand
she peered down embarrased and reached
for a crumpled napkin from her tattered overcoat
and the child welched as her head ascended
beyond her unfaulty gaze
the girl relaxed her nostrils rouged with blood
as she blotted the napkin to her nose
as if it was desperate to fall off
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AX BAXB XXXX XXCXCXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 114 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 7 |
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