The Tortoise and the Coat
When the tortoise awoke from a short sleeping spell
He had no coat to keep him warm and it was cold as hell
So he took a walk to find his coat but came across a great big goat
Have you seen my large brown coat I need it to keep me warm he boasts
The goat shook his head and said
“Try mother hen or the Billy goat maybe they have seen your coat”
So he left to find Billy, the Billy goat to see if he had found his coat
He walked a mile or maybe more but the going was really slow
Then he heard a lion roar, so he hid, like he has done many times before
He hid under a large round rock but then he found that he was stuck
The lion roared but could not break in the rock felt like a new found skin
And that how the tortoise got his coat as to this day the rocks still rolls
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Submitted on July 21, 2013
Modified on April 06, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 764 |
| Words | 168 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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