And I Should Wait
The dead grass from our hillside home
Comes tangled in our cotton clothes.
So the girl I know I had once known
Brushes off stickers as she goes.
Beryl skies and sun-bathed skin,
Gallant girl in mystic pose,
With practiced wit but free of sin
And intentions she says no one knows.
It shows she's learned to mix a serum
To guard against my lean and tug.
I calculate in Bayesian Theorem
Is she smitten or is she smug?
But if I wait - and I should wait -
And she might try (it's not too late)
Then it could work
And I could work
But I should not anticipate.
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Submitted on September 02, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXXA BABA CDCD EEFFE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 110 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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