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Noisy Is The Heart

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Cool and pensive is the mind and swift the truth to find
Rash and heedless is the heart and swift the truth to blind

Sure and steady is the mind and swift the truth to stay
Lax and chancy is the heart and swift the truth to fray

Fair and honest is the mind and swift the truth to hold
Sly and fickle is the heart and swift the truth to fold

Strong and stalwart is the mind and swift the truth to keep
Wan and withered is the heart and swift the truth to sweep

Pure and wholesome is the mind and swift the truth to know
Base and baneful is the heart and swift the truth to throw

Calm and quiet is the mind and swift the truth to learn
Wild and noisy is the heart and swift the truth to spurn
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 679
Words 144
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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