SHAPE SHIFTER
SHAPE SHIFTER
I bought a gram of parallelogram
And I put it up my schnoz
It honked and hawed for all aboard
And why met just because
I did dodecahedron
As a chaser, as one does
And on the fly flew right on by
And gave me quite a buzz
I followed that with octagon
Some hexagram and heart
It jangled all my triangle
And gave me such a start
I rhumba'd with some rhombus
With a twist of cone and square
Then star got cross, which was a loss
As I wasn't really there
I doubled up on diamond
And then slammed some pentagram
Went down the tubes and tried some cube
That's just the way I am
I'd a barrow full of arrow left
And so I let it slide
I fangled some rectangle
And boy, was that a ride!
Old semi-circle shook my hand
And sphere said “That's my boy!”
Then I got gone on nonagon
Which made me jump for joy
To top it off I scoffed some kite
With sweet trapezium
And then eclipse slipped past my lips
To ease the tedium.
About this poem
It's a poem about getting hooked on shapes.
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Written on August 17, 2021
Submitted by rayeden on December 30, 2021
Modified on April 19, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXB CBXB CDED BFBF XAXA XGEG XHCH XABA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 933 |
Words | 200 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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