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10/23/2005 c1 23La Gitane
Lol. I first read this poem just prior to starting my GCSEs, and it freaked me out no end! There's something very horrific about strangling your love with her own hair, and then sitting with the corpse in your arms till morning. It was only when I read a bit more of Browning's work that I realised he writes these kind of poems quite often...

Anyway, your piece is quite good. Some of the tenses are a bit mixed up, and in the fifth stanza, it's 'leant', not 'lent', but of course, you did write this a few years ago... It serves well as a complement to the poem, both in reiterating the ideas and maintaining that slightly archaic style of writing.

Hm. I have the urge to go read some of Browning's more disturbing character poems now...
10/19/2005 c1 5castaways and cutouts
wow. great imagery! and i've never read the poem, so i have no idea what it's about! but good job anyway, becuase i got the general idea from your story.

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