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Lasso The Caribou

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Tattoo the cockatoo. Identify the sound.
Subdue the crested blue. Gather, set and ground.

Review the kangaroo. Identify the kick.
Subdue the leaping crew. Gather, set and pick.

Eschew the Marabou. Identify the curse.
Subdue the ornery shrew. Gather, set and nurse.

Construe the jabiru. Identify the beak.
Subdue the bugaboo. Gather, set and tweak.

Lasso the Caribou. Identify the horn.
Subdue the derring-do. Gather, set and mourn.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BB CC DD EE
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 422
Words 68
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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