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Insanity

Wallace LaBenne

Insanity

When your reality is yours and yours alone
this weird extrality
is madness to the bone

When your normality is trite and indiscrete
this weird banality
is madness on the street

When your duality is match and opposite
this weird plurality
is madness by the split

When your causality is tough and eccentric
this weird vitality
is madness for the sick

When your modality is voice and peculiar
this weird orality
is madness in the slur

When your mentality is rude and unaligned
this weird totality
is madness of the mind

© Wallace Dean LaBenne
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Submitted on August 21, 2014

Modified on March 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABA BBB BBB CBC DBD BBB A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 529
Words 96
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
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