Cast Not Your Pearls Before Swine
The selected gourmet victuals with bone-china, fine silverware
Is placement and food for twiddles to the boorish, non-debonair.
This appetite to satiate has preference for burgers and fries
With plastic fork and paper plate, the bon vivant simply decries.
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition,
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition.
Renowned art and literature, creative genius manifest.
Reduced from grand to miniature through the philistine's smaller quest.
Pedestrian and archaic, they are smugly giving short shrift.
Conventionally prosaic, this attitude has patrons miffed.
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition,
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition.
A lucid, scintillating mind presenting rational reason;
So much fatuity they find is to commonsense mere treason.
The babbling, inane blatherskite: illiterate and impudent;
this worthless palaver is trite, stupidly dull and redundant.
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition,
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | aabbCC ddeeCC ccdxCC |
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,079 |
Words | 159 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
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