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Small Death

Payton Hayes

Free verse
The French call an orgasm
“la petite mort” or “the little death”

tango with lips, teeth, and tongue
undress each other with our eyes
an unspoken agreement that
we’re both dying a little tonight
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Written on 2020

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022

Modified on April 07, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 204
Words 35
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 4
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