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why

Eathen Lord

love is like a melody
it gets sweeter with each passing day
and as years become a symphony
its more and more enrapturing
for all our grief the heart is here to stay
for emotion felt or pain is symmetry
now go to sleep all who are longing to know
the why of life is mystery unknowable.
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Submitted on October 15, 2013

Modified on March 30, 2023

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Scheme ABACBADE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 277
Words 57
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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