Golden Calf



A perfidious friendship is a useless chaff.

An idolatrous worship is a Golden Calf.

A self-indulgent wanton is a greedy staff.

A mercenary glutton is a Golden Calf.

A hopeless admiration is a major gaffe.

A faithless veneration is a Golden Calf.

A stand-up comedian is a belly laugh.

A playwright tragedian is a Golden Calf.

A scandalous reprobate is a stark riffraff.

A disgraceful potentate is a Golden Calf.

A crucial split decision is a forceful half.

A numinous derision is a Golden Calf.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A A A A A A A A A A A A
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 482
Words 85
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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