A delicate guest
Life is an abstract state of mind, lost in a quest not knowing why
Often wonder while drifting high, voices reach taller than blue sky wide
Blown with the wind, until they ever die.
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cruel life
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Written on September 17, 1981
Submitted by moderessi0 on January 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABA |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 181 |
| Words | 34 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
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