To A Refinery In The Desert At Night
Sparkle, silent city!
Arrayed in radiance,
Appear across black leagues
As clear as desert stars
Across black light years, shine
In arid dark as do
Those incandescent few
Oases: cities all,
Like thee and me, adrift
For all eternity.
And fuel our human craft,
A slender brilliance, singing,
Rising straight and clear
Against that greater night
To reach those greater cities,
Still to journey on,
Its silvery silhouette
As luminous as any
Desert star at dawn.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | A XXXXBBXXA XXXXXXXAX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 76 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 9 |
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