The Flaw In Paganism
Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 132 |
| Words | 25 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
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