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Billiards

Marcus Holley

I used to play billiards

With my best friend, aged 5

He was not very good

And neither was I.


There was no way of winning

No end or beginning

We just played to have fun

And to waste all our time

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Written on 2012

Submitted by SeesawUpendown on January 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme X A A X B B X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 201
Words 51
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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