Valiant Tongue
Grace good grades
but not for the girl
at the immigrant’s
traditional home
With pride her tongue
found a good reason
to deviate from his rule:
“Speak your native,
you’re not in school!”
So she sniped her consonants
and aimed her vowels witfully
adjacent to her father’s accent
Nourishing this pronouced talent
ten years later she gained fame
being a vocal artist in her own name
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Submitted by ludy_b on November 27, 2021
Modified on April 23, 2023
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Scheme | XABX XXC XC BAX XDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 2, 3, 3 |
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