Tongue-Tied (Silly Dillies)
Tongue-tied (Silly Dillies)
A bunch of silly dilly words
wound tightly ‘round my tongue —
they all huddled together, and
were to each other strung
So when I tried to open up
my mouth to clearly speak —
they tripped and stumbled
numbly out, inaudible and weak
I tried to fix the situation
by quickly drinking up,
a very sweet concoction
of dark rum and soda pop
But when I finished downing it,
I was deep in thinking…
I couldn’t even recollect
the reason for my drinking!
My tongue and all the silly words
once tightly ‘round it wound,
hung loose and impolitely —
and fell out upon the ground!
I tried to pick them up as best,
my -best -could -ever -be…
But doze dilly words
drapped ‘round my dongue —
no longer dould I dee!
About this poem
Sometimes we try to speak and have trouble getting the words out. This happens to all of us at one time or another. We get tongue-tied! I was feeling silly one day and wrote this poem.
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Written on January 01, 2001
Submitted by susan.brumel on August 24, 2024
Modified by susan.brumel on August 24, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A ABXB CDXD ECEX XFXF AGXG XHABH |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 753 |
Words | 153 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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