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What Will You Do

anonymo magnifico

What will you do
When they come at night
With wide-open mouths
Preparing to bite?
What will you do
When they arrive in the day
With flapping tongues
And insist they stay?
What will you do
When you know they weren't there;
It was just your imagination
Another temporary scare?
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Submitted by g_d on June 02, 2015

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Scheme AbcbAdedAfgf
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 264
Words 50
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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