Birthday.



Birthday.

Thou art celebrated with pomp.
Every year thou apper in due time.
Thou art decked with flowers and gifts.
But I find thou art committing a crime.

Thou bring new hopes and aspirations
and bring greetings of kiths and kins.
Thou add one more candle
and delicious birthday cakes.

But thy approach is equivocal.
Thou gift them blissful days.
Then stealthily snach a year
and drag them to death beds.
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Submitted by swarupbhattacharya263 on September 13, 2024

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Scheme XABA XBCX CXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 409
Words 84
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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