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Body Outlines

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Do you fit body outlines chalked around the dead?
What is it that defines you as alive instead?
Do you fit body outlines modeled after zest?
What is it that defines you as the litmus test?
Do you fit body outlines sculpted in gray steel?
What is it that defines you as the beau ideal?
Do you fit body outlines fronted like facade?
What is it that defines you as the gift of God?
Do you fit body outlines structured from thin air?
What is it that defines you as the teddy bear?
Do you fit body outlines plastered as roughcast?
What is it that defines you as the ace repast?
Do you fit body outlines imaged on a screen?
What is it that defines you as the best routine?

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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDDEEAAFF
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 653
Words 130
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
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