Space, Time, and Death
The force of time is organized and strong,and like the morning bell that brings you lifethe silent bell of time sounds like a gong.And know this bell will sound to bring you strife.And look around,...
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Hi,To me, it's basically iambic pentameter up until the anapestic variation in line 9 (nothing wrong with that).You lose it in the last 3 lines. I scan them thus:but the ROAD to this PLACE SEEMS to be...
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JP--Part of the problem is that this takes a whole poem to creep up on the idea that John Donne nails in one line, "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" (Meditation 17.) It's...
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Thanks a lot for your input yolhanson and Mike, I really appreciate the time you put in. Yah the last three lines weren't metrically correct at all, but I had done the poem up to line 11 and then put...
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