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poem #3

David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)

Words can wriggle through the cracks
Where grosser largeness blocks,
And even with no aperture
Huskless speech can seep through locks.
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Submitted by DavidPlantinga on March 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 134
Words 21
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
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