Dying To Be Known
Every book has 100 messages,
trying to get out
And every song has 10 inside of it,
waiting to sing out loud
Every painting has 1000 images,
fighting to be shown
And every poem has a hidden voice,
—dying to be known
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 20, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AX XX AB XB X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 245 |
Words | 46 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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