Still incomplete
Riddim Slides 2000 (Hospital)
Work with what enthusiasm we will,
Something actually stays scattered,
Something uncompleted still
Holds up the ascending of the sun.
By the bedside, on the step,
At the edge, close to the doors,
With its danger or its petition,
Like a beggar it pauses;
Pauses, and won't disappear;
Pauses, and won't be repudiated;
By the considerations of yesterday
Each to-day is heavier made;
Till finally the weight appears
More noteworthy than our solidarity can bear,
Weighty as the heaviness of dreams,
Proceeding us all over the place.
Also, we remain from one day to another,
Like the midgets of times passed by,
Who, as Western legends say,
On their shoulders held the sky.
About this poem
It all about life
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Written on September 04, 2021
Submitted by riddimgreatmusic on November 01, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A X A B X X B X X X C X X X X X X D C D |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 113 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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