Possessions



The things we own can own us:
goods and assets enfetter.
To secure and maintain them we in turn become debtor.

Our effects can affect us:
clothes and attire must conform.
To secure and maintain them we in turn become a norm.

We belong to belongings:
gear and baggage encumber.
To secure and maintain them we in turn become grumbler.

Possessions can possess us:
estates and chattels take hold.
To secure and maintain them we in turn become controlled.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABB ACC XBB ADD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 439
Words 79
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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