The Bowl of Ice Cream
T’was an evil tempter proffering
This thing I should avoid.
Yet, again I took this offering
Excuses then, employed.
You see, my meal left lingering
Its alliaceous taste.
I couldn’t sit malingering
And acted thus in haste.
It conquered me, this hankering
For creamy sweet delight.
To this defense I’m anchoring,
Thus absolved, I took a bite.
About this poem
During COVID, I got into a bad habit of eating ice cream in the evenings. It was always harder to avoid if we'd had something with garlic or onions for dinner. That was a hard habit to break!
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Written on June 12, 2023
Submitted by Laurelmlee on June 19, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB ACAC ADAD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 348 |
Words | 65 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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