Some Children Shock Their Parents
Some children shock their parents by growing up absurd.
They manifest uniqueness before they speak a word.
Marie, a future chemist, drew unanimous vote.
She grew as Madam Curie and physicist of note.
Sigmund, a little baby, drew therapeutic scrips.
He grew as an analyst and few Freudian slips.
Helen, a blameless toddler, drew thousand ships afar.
She grew to be a beauty and caused the Trojan War.
Albert, another Einstein, drew Nobel prize acclaim.
He grew as a scientist and gave genius his name.
Some children shock their parents by growing up absurd.
They manifest uniqueness before they speak a word.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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