Serendipity
Three princes of old Serendip
feeling in charge of their world
were forever amazed to discover
how chance in fact governed their fate.
Meandering paths and off-hand remarks
produced most remarkable leads
to unforeseen fortune and unsought-for good
in areas large, small, in-between.
This incredible luck, this miraculous touch
they possessed became legendary.
Soon a marvelous coinage indeed
bestowed on their names fame aplenty.
Today all blessed with errant bounty
can credit their princely rewards
to that mystic inexplicability,
the surprising "serendipity."
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Submitted on August 20, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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