New Love
Does the chemist succeed
without blowing things up
Were you ever in need
from a bout of bad luck
Does the tree need to shake
for the apples to fall
Does your heart need to break
—for new love to then call
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 02, 2019
Modified on May 01, 2023
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Scheme | AX AX BC BC X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 243 |
Words | 46 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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