WONDER DUST
WONDER DUST
Wonder dust gets under stuff
When there might seem no way
It's lying there beneath your chairs
No matter what the day
There's Monday dust and Wednesday dust
And Sunday dust as well
It doesn't beat around the bush
It lies there where it fell
You'll hoover it and dust it off
To keep your floors all clean
But when you turn around you'll see
More dust where you've just been
Your dust is mostly you, you know
Your skin, your hair and snot
And if you're thinking otherwise
Your thinking's tommy rot
It hangs around on picture frames
On skirting boards and plants
And it gets to all those places
Where it knows your duster can't
Sometimes you'll see it in your room
Just wafting in mid-air
That dust's so bad it drives you mad
It gets most everywhere
So when you're done with dusting
And your house all looks just so
Just give it a few hours...
There'll be more of it you know!
About this poem
IT's a meditation on dust.
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Written on June 22, 2021
Submitted by rayeden on December 27, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX CXXX XXXX XDXD XCXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 892 |
Words | 176 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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