The Mouth On Trial
T'was a court filled to capacity
Hearing attracted many as such
The mood so pensive and packed with velosity
All ears everyone wanted to receive much
On trial Mouth and Nose in atrocity
They spread corona with touch
The judge lacked words with intensity
The case had no evidence to clutch
The mouth tried to defend
Yet words did gusht
"Mine is to munch
Nothing like being contagious
Maybe if breath was to crunch
Then I will answer like couragious
My mouth may remove stench
Yet it be not infectious
Juries of the bench
Am quite innocent like a man religious"
The mouth tried to defend
Yet words did not properly gusht
"Blasphemy!" Did shout the plaintiff
"You are well known for many things and gossip."
Words fell like rolling down a cliff
"You have bitten people like a clip."
Mouth drooped like a thief
"He is guilty inside and deep.
To the gullows be his grief
He should be banished into the deep."
The mouth tried to defend
Yet words did not properly gusht
The judge adjusted his spectacles
"I would have jailed you for life."
The judge went in circles
He looked on the table at the cuff
"Am indebted though to spare your life
For I am bound by oracles
Though you will always be in a cuff
A mask will block your tentacles
Never will you again threaten life."
The mouth tried to defend
Yet words did not properly gusht
About this poem
Corona made people mask their mouths. This poem uses the masking
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Submitted by baby_p on June 01, 2021
Modified by baby_p on June 02, 2021
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | a b a b a b a b C a d e d e f e f e C A g x x x h i h i C A j k j g k j g j k C A |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,360 |
Words | 257 |
Stanzas | 41 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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