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A Thinking Man

Rick Wojtala

I like to play it smart;
kill them with kindness.
I preferred Athens over Sparta;
the thinking Leonardo Da Vinci over the muscular
Michelangelo.
John Wooden said if you do your best you should win.
But life has its moments.
You have to be prepared for that.
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Written on January 24, 2022

Submitted on January 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 257
Words 53
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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