Analysis of Struthious Denials Cause Greater Later Pain



Hide your head in the sand. What you don't see is gone.
Struthious denials cause fantasies to spawn.

Hide your head in the sand. Avoid the grounds for fear.
Struthious denials cause all worries to blear.

Hide your head in the sand. Escape deep love you know.
Struthious denials cause many tears to flow.

Hide your head in the sand. Forsake established proof.
Struthious denials cause fine minds to goof.

Hide your head in the sand. Sidestep highways to peace.
Struthious denials cause harmonies to cease.

Hide your head in the sand. Elude each thought of hurt.
Struthious denials cause sufferings to skirt.

Hide your head in the sand. Submerge reasons for guilt.
Struthious denials cause principles to melt.

Hide your head in the sand. Divert for short term gain.
Struthious denials cause greater later pain.


Scheme XX AA BB CC DD EE XX FF
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 111001111111 1010110011 111001010111 1010111011 111001011111 1010110111 111001010101 101011111 1110011111 1010110011 111001011111 1010110011 111001011011 1010110011 111001011111 1010110101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 793
Words 136
Sentences 25
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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