Someone
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
She lit a candle
Brighter than the sun
The candle was the heart;
At the heart of someone.
She held it to the curtain
And fire grew around
in rages and swirls;
in burns they found.
Why did she stay?
I do not know.
How did she bare its
surrounding glow?
For a minute
she breathed,
breathed in the sun.
And only then,
she knew what she'd done.
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Written on March 11, 2022
Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 11, 2022
Modified on March 22, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 341 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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