Telegraphy
Along the smooth and slender wires, the sleepless heralds run,
Fast as the clear and living rays go streaming from the sun;
No pearls of flashes, heard or seen, their wondrous flight betray,
And yet their words are quickly caught in cities far away.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABB |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 254 |
Words | 46 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
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