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Compare Fairly

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Dairy to udder
Gallant to dare
Peanut to butter
All barely compare

Kiwi to cherry
Circle to square
Monster to fairy
All poorly compare

Jewel to carat
Exposed to bare
Osprey to parrot
All oddly compare

Poser to riddle
Standard to tare
Grimace to fiddle
All rarely compare

Fuji to apple
Couple to pair
Divine to chapel
All fully compare
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on April 20, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAA AAAA BABA CACA CACA
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 315
Words 60
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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