Living In Castles On Opposite Seas



He's sipping chardonnay, I'm having some tea
he writes at midnight, I have patients till three
it's yesterday for him, it's today for me
living in castles on opposite seas

I'm sipping chardonnay, she's having her tea
I write at midnight, she has patients till three
it's tomorrow for her, it's today for me
living in castles on opposite seas
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Submitted by MichaelEugeneCantrall on June 18, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme aaaB aaaB
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 334
Words 60
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Eugene Michaels

A native of Northern California, the poet Michael Eugene Cantrall is a graduate of Stanford University (M.A. & B.A. in philosophy) and Shasta Community College (A.A. in Journalism). Michael pens poems while watching the deer, coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, black bear, and the occasional mountain lion scamper around the Sierra foothills. more…

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