Pick Your Poison
Booze—Broads—The Bible,
which poison will you claim
The one that numbs, the one that thrills
—the one your soul to shame
‘Captain Tony’s, Key West: June, 1971’
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Submitted by Kurt Philip Behm on June 03, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 27 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
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