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The Great Wish

Patrick O'Neil

Free verse
I Wish?...
I wish, I was someone else.
Someone of fortune, fame, nobility.
To have, things and diamond rings.

I Wish?...
I wish that I, could do great things.
Save the world or make it new.
Do the stuff, that make the news.

I Wish?...
I wish the world would stop!
Telling me, who I am, what I should be.
Just let me live! judgment free.

I Wish?...
Night and day.
All too fast, time slips away.
In the end its just me that remains.

This I Wish!...
The Greatest Wish?
The only real, last wish!
To know God's plan, the grand design,
that I may see, why He, made me?
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Written on May 15, 2013

Submitted by on January 05, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axbc Acxx Axbb Addx aaaxb
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 568
Words 135
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 5
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