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The Tree

John Howe

If you were a tree,
I would walk to you everyday..
Your shroud would comfort me from the sun,
and I would find a new place to carve my name.

But everyday I would leave,
Taking a leaf or a fallen branch with me.
And in the night I would stare at the shed pieces of you,
wishing i had the space at my home for a tree.

About this poem

A poem about forbidden love and how close you can really get, while always having to return home without your love.

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Written on April 30, 2022

Submitted by jhowefl on April 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXX XAXA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 316
Words 76
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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