On meeting a successful poet.
Richard Daish 1949 (DocPenfro)
I bow before your wondrous talent
Which can but make the language shine
How I envy that prodigious knowledge
Which makes those words of yours, not mine
For I am mere, a humble wordsmith
Who waits, for inspiration vain,
Who cannot write a single sentence
Lest it be of love’s unending pain.
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Written on September 13, 2000
Submitted by richard.daish on August 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 284 |
Words | 52 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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