Traces Of Then



Living in the shadow
of a man now gone
Darkness my betrayal
shades of future past

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 18, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 114
Words 21
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1

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  • alanswansea18
    I love them short and simple ones. People only view but they never vote?
    LikeReply2 months ago

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