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It

Red Book

When it speeds up it's easy to hold on,
When it's slow it won't go because you won't let go.

You're wrong if you think that you've got it all wrong;
When you know what you want, you just know you don't know.
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Submitted by redbook on January 25, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XA XA
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 205
Words 43
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 2
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