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Give And Take

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Give-and-take
is quid pro quo.
Tit-for-tat is blow-for-blow.

Head-to-head
is tête-à-tête.
Heart-to-heart is mate-to-mate.

Line-by-line
is ticktacktoe.
Kiss and hug is X and O.

By-the-way
is a' propos.
Step-for-step is do-si-do.

Face-to-face
is vis-à-vis.
One-to-one is causerie.
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Submitted on January 02, 2010

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAA BXX XBA XCX CCX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 268
Words 37
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
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