Life
Life is pain
Falls as rain
Ticks as clock
With great deals of mental block
Causes tears
Still I have to bear
Infinite pleasure
There is no device to measure
Difficult to go up against
Too hard to understand
Very complex to forget
But endless time to regret
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Submitted on August 03, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABB XXCC XXDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 245 |
Words | 48 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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