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Line three has a nice ring to it. The line that tripped me up is four, because the verbs temporarily confused me. "Scars" could be either a verb or noun, so my brain was kind of expecting one thing...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T02:44:47Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Anna M
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2019-12-08T02:44:47Z (almost 5 years ago)
Line three has a nice ring to it. The line that tripped me up is four, because the verbs temporarily confused me. "Scars" could be either a verb or noun, so my brain was kind of expecting one thing and got another. The line is also ambiguous (maybe your intention?). I'm not 100% sure whether you mean that the stone face has scarred some other, unnamed thing, or that the stone face itself is "torn?" On first reading, I thought the latter, but now I see that the former makes more sense. Do you want the reader to puzzle over this, or should the gist of the line be clear on first reading?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2013-02-21T02:08:16Z (over 11 years ago)
Original score: 3