SHAPE SHIFTER

Ray Eden 1959 (Hackney)



SHAPE SHIFTER

I bought a gram of parallelogram
And I put it up my schnoz
It honked and hawed for all aboard
And why met just because

I did dodecahedron
As a chaser, as one does
And on the fly flew right on by
And gave me quite a buzz

I followed that with octagon
Some hexagram and heart
It jangled all my triangle
And gave me such a start

I rhumba'd with some rhombus
With a twist of cone and square
Then star got cross, which was a loss
As I wasn't really there

I doubled up on diamond
And then slammed some pentagram
Went down the tubes and tried some cube
That's just the way I am

I'd a barrow full of arrow left
And so I let it slide
I fangled some rectangle
And boy, was that a ride!

Old semi-circle shook my hand
And sphere said “That's my boy!”
Then I got gone on nonagon
Which made me jump for joy

To top it off I scoffed some kite
With sweet trapezium
And then eclipse slipped past my lips
To ease the tedium.

About this poem

It's a poem about getting hooked on shapes.

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Written on August 17, 2021

Submitted by rayeden on December 30, 2021

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB CBXB CDED BFBF XAXA XGEG XHCH XABA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 933
Words 200
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Ray Eden

I have been writing poetry, prose and lyrics since my teens, and I'll be 63 in January. I live on The Isle of Sheppey in Kent, UK. more…

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