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Insanity

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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

When your modality
is strange and peculiar
this weird extrality is madness in the slur

When your causality
is weak and eccentric
this weird extrality is madness for the sick

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

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

When your mentality
is rude and unaligned
this weird extrality is madness of the mind
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABB ACC ADD AXX AAX AAX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 504
Words 91
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
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