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Tell Me No Lies

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Hear the suggestions
See the surprise
Ask me no questions
Don no disguise

Hear the suggestions
See in life-size
Ask me no questions
Lead no uprise

Hear the suggestions
See all reprise
Ask me no questions
Give no retries

Hear the suggestions
See one surmise
Ask me no questions
Find no demise

Hear the suggestions
See in my eyes
Ask me no questions
Tell me no lies

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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AbAb AbAb AbAa AbAb AbAb
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 344
Words 67
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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