Dead Horse Run



You can't do what can't be done.

You can't lose and eat a ton.
You can't fail if number one.
You can't live without the sun.
You can't succor and still stun.
You can't shoot without a gun.
You can't miss if you have won.
You can't be daughter and son.
You can't make displeasure fun.
You can't stop what's not begun.
You can't embrace and still shun.
You can't spin what can't be spun.
You can't give when you have none.
You can't make a dead horse run.

But. . .you can do what can be done.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A AAAAAAAAAAAAA A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 476
Words 97
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 13, 1

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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