Particles
Midsummer heat, and us in silence
the flickering of a polar star
once led us to one another
and as particles, we fell apart
Dissipated like fog upon the ocean
exhaled by the trees—sweet oxygen
we drift like leaves in airy motions
until the silence comes again
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Written on August 06, 2024
Submitted by Berxiton on August 07, 2024
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | XXXX AAXX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 50 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
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