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No Time For Humanity

Wallace Dean LaBenne

No time for frivolity. No time for having fun.
No time for equality. No time for any one.
No time for hieroglyphics. No time for learning truth.
No time for nonspecifics. No time for any couth.
No time for witticism. No time for making quips.
No time for criticism. No time for any blips.
No time for insanity. No time for being mad.
No time for inanity. No time for any bad.
No time for chicanery. No time for playing tricks.
No time for the ornery. No time for any shticks.
No time for hedonism. No time for spoiling self.
No time for masochism. No time for any pelf.
No time for demography. No time for placing scales.
No time for geography. No time for any tales.
No time for humanity.No time for giving aid.
No time for urbanity. No time for any grade.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

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Scheme AABBCCDDECFFGGHH
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 742
Words 145
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
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