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Snakes Swallow Their Tails

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Logical deduction: aggression assails
Circular destruction: snakes swallow their tails

Sensual seduction: inspection surveils
Circular destruction: snakes swallow their tails

Potential defection: distraction derails
Circular destruction: snakes swallow their tails

Temporal persuasion: restriction curtails
Circular destruction: snakes swallow their tails

Essential reduction: absorption prevails
Circular destruction: snakes swallow their tails

Tangential subjection: incursion impales
Circular destruction: snakes swallow their tails

Eventual construction: creation travails
Circular destruction: snakes swallow their tails
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme aA aA aA aA aA aA aA
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 612
Words 70
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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