The Greatest
Racecraft is... The
Tunnel vision from
snaking through Monaco
Leading the pack with
Nearly a minute between you
And the next car
Nailing apexes
The perfect braking pressure
Blending these transactions until smooth
It's flying through the Finnish forest
As the best-known son of a racing dynasty
Piloting the fastest accelerating car in history
Taming a beast known for brutality
And fragility, a twin-charged rocket
Built of popsicle sticks and balsa wood
It's about knowing the limit
of man and machine how far they can dream
And daring to take them there
About this poem
I wrote this in January as a kind of tribute to Ayrton Senna and Henri Toivonen.
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Written on January 27, 2021
Submitted by xanderxm12 on December 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 3, 3, 3 |
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