It's Harder
It’s harder to lie in verse or a poem,
than it is with dialog or prose
It’s harder to bend the truth over a feeling,
than around what you or someone else knows
It’s harder to feign an eruption of light,
or the isolation of being alone in the dark
It’s harder to mislead with words formed in your soul,
than with tomes that were written to outsmart
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 09, 2019
Modified on March 13, 2023
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| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 393 |
| Words | 72 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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