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Um



Used by all students
Mostly as a quick excuse
All teachers hate it
Students and children love it
The word known as um

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A poem about um

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Written on June 04, 2021

Submitted by s28064095 on June 07, 2021

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Scheme ABCCD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 113
Words 23
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5

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