Recipe



CHIDDEN still murmurs,
SLAPPED and RAPPED complain,
HURT, with a thousand tongues,
Whines out his pain.
  
This is the learning
Unto which we come:
PROPERLY WALLOPED
Is for ever dumb.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 176
Words 31
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (21 July 1865 – 23 December 1924) was a British author, poet and journalist. more…

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