Grammar




Grammar O Grammar, the English language body armour.
The time of prudence and sagacity, saw your rise in virility, voracity.
The disdain rampant in any day and age, and the sentence stands troubled and enraged
To the elite an acceptable embrace, to the feeble a dejectible disgrace.
From the depths of petulance and plight, to the summit of supreme delight;
Rules consumed to such suitable degree, yet crafted often preposterously.
If kissed hadn't charcoal and paper, what would be of thee?
All that armour O Grammar, would have perished within that of a tree.
- Arun E. Serrao
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Submitted on July 19, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFBBG
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 570
Words 98
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

Arun Serrao

Born and Raised in India, the love of the English language and the structure of sentence with intense vocabulary, just stimulates my mind. I just want to be able to write in a way that evokes and provokes... more…

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