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Pleasure Principle

Jamie Tierney 1991 (Cardiff)

A void that avoids deep pain
Seeking everywhere for gain
Pleasure in others sustain
Difficult to ascertain

Distraction while concealing
Wondering why not healing
Masking instead revealing
Emotion lead unfeeling.

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Englyn - Nothing truly ever goes away, until it has taught us what we need to understand.

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Written on October 02, 2023

Submitted by SirSlothical on October 02, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAA BBBB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 218
Words 36
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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