Secret Lesion
Couples standing side-by-side
Can be many miles apart:
Long ago some great divide
Shattered fusion of the heart
Outwardly they are as one
But internally in shreds
Woven webs, no longer spun,
Are forsaken over-spreads
Perfunctory performance
Camouflages make-believe
Ostentatious conformance
Gives relationships reprieve
Propinquity concurrence
Substitutes as cohesion
Habitual contingence
Conceals the secret lesion
Couples who onetime did coax
Come to lament their duet
Conspirators of the hoax
Fabrications they abet
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF ECDC GHGH |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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