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Eating My Tail

Scott Michael Potter 1966 (Grand Rapids, MI)

Rhymed
Herein is the uroboric return
Move downward spiral within
Grooves etched echo the downturn
Begin improving after the tailspin

--by Scott Michael Potter

About this poem

10-7-7-10 syllablically, with alternating urn/in/urn/in ending rhyme scheme, and starting rhyme schemes of ee'in/oove/oove/ee'in, and the interconnectedness of Herein to begin the first stanza and return to end it, and then Begin to begin the last stanza and tailspin to end it, the movements mimic the Uroboros, to bring the reader closer in and return them front to back and back to front while spiraling and echoing....

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Written on February 18, 2022

Submitted by ScottMPotter on April 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 153
Words 24
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
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