Indifference
When I am dead I will not care
Forever more,
If sky be radiantly fair
Or tempest roar.
If my life-hoard in sin be spent,
My wife re-wed,--
I'll be so damned indifferent
When I am dead.
When I meet up with dusty doom
What if I rest
In common ditch or marble tomb,
If curst or blest?
Shall my seed be to wealth or fame,
Or gallows led,--
To me it will be all the same
When I am dead.
So say for me no pious prayer,
Be no tear shed;
In nothingness I cannot care,
I'll be so dead.
I shall not reck of war or peace
When I go hence:
Lord, let me win sublime release,--
INDIFFERENCE!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ababxcxC dedefcfC acacgxgx |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
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