When my heart beats so soft and sweet
It hopes to meet
A lover fair
And float on air
When my heart throbs passionately
It does not see
That what awaits
Is a cruel fate
My poor heart aches for love today
And gets its way
But has no clue
It is not true
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The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff
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