Pathos of Man (triple acrostic poetic form)



Pretty pictures tell a tale
 And speak of human quirks
 Thinking that a soul on sale
 Has been a thing that lurks
 Others just ignore this tack
 Sending the amorous one to her back

 Often the pretty are given this bane
 For takers are dreck and truly inane

 Mental images make us or not
 Amorous things young one's call hot
 Never will I disdain this to rot

 ©1/4/2013 by George W. Collett
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Submitted on March 29, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCC DD EEE X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 379
Words 72
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 2, 3, 1

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