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What Weeping Face by Walt Whitman

What weeping face is that looking from the window?

Why does it stream those sorrowful tears?

Is it for some burial place, vast and dry?

Is it to wet the soil of graves?

This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure like other poems.

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What are free verse poems?

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