Speaker
Sadly, today’s luncheon speaker
Not an information “leaker”
Rattles, reads in monotone
Boring, dry, I can but moan
Reviewers, orators, those who teach
Please, do not just read your speech
Give a forceful intro, gesture, and postulate
Be descriptive, entertain and demonstrate
Audience glued, to most important factor
In your speech do intonate and be an actor
And to think I paid for this affair
Let me disappear and imagine I wasn’t there.
I don’t know why we
must wear underwear
all the time...
Adam and Eve didn’t
and they almost got
along.
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Submitted by arthurweil on February 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABBCCDDAAEEFEGDHI |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 555 |
Words | 95 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
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