Wordplay
Of the many words to choose there must be a gazillion.
Should we lose fine descriptions by using half a million?
Discordant sounds in the ear vibrate as cacophony.
Clashing noise tonality generates disharmony.
Ignorant obtuseness designates analphabet.
It is illiteracy in a witlessness beset.
Fraudulent hoodwinking styles are methods to bamboozle.
Chicane shams and trickery are used to dupe and baffle.
Postulated enigmas are difficult conundrums.
Conjectural mind-teasers are proposition theorems.
An exceptional event is a lollapalooza.
Extraordinary "something" for mammal brain's cerebra.
Lexicographic practice presents words for little cost.
The expense is energy for usage before they're lost.
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AA AA BB CC DD DX BB |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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