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Sink or Swim.

Milton

Tonight I won

My prize I won

I spent many years pulling, aching for the fish to bite....

The ditches that surround me are full of what we call: Left overs...

My knee is waist deep in boredom yet my feet are happy to oblige the cynical tiles of which we step...

I can't help but rake the flowers that grow from the rotting demeanor which lines the hooks I lay...

Around your Adamant Waist....
I won't grab a thing...
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A A X X X X XX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 408
Words 80
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2
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Milton

Poems....are what keeps me going.... Poems are what stops me....My name is Milton...I am young My name is Milton...I am Naive My name is Milton...Doesn't matter... What I say..How I say it...My name is Milton...I thank you for letting me share my burden with you...But I must Warn you...My name is Milton... more…

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