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What She Found Inside the Nautilus

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In the ordered chambers of a shell  
She discovers the chaos of oceans:
Waves, tides, coils, currents, all
That which comes into being within
Her soul and subsides; that is, and is not;
Discovers the same pendulous patterns:
Storm winds at a whisper caught
In her heart’s descending caverns,
Soft rolling thunders that mourn,
And inverted trees of lightning
That bring shadow and illumination
On all forms within her contending;
Sorrow and hope circling, spiraling, 
Closing in like pugilists in a caged ring.
Written by Frank Jaspers.

The poetic form is called a Free Verse Sonnet which resembles a traditional sonnet in that it has fourteen lines which are organized according a rhyme scheme. However, the rhyme scheme in this case is slant rhyme or mixed rhyme. Furthermore, there is no regular meter nor a fixed number of syllables per line.
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