Gilbert and the Spiritual Ghost (1/10)
Gilbert used to go
to his school, everyday
through a brick paved road,
just penetrating the old cemetery.
While he passed
he usually saw
peoples’ funerals
heard from the distant,
the preacher’s mourning speech,
“..... For dust you are,
and to dust, you shall return.”
Sometimes,
he used to ride
on a bicycle,
or sometimes
he used to just walk
and cross the cemetery road.
Most of the time
he could recognize
those mourning people
as they were his neighbors
and he knows all of them.
Continued...
(Pure fiction.
Any similarity should be treated as mere coincidence.)
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Submitted by hakikur on December 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAX XXXXXXX BXCBXA XXCXX XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 129 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 7, 6, 5, 2 |
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