FOUL PLAY For Claude Holcombe
Foul play somewhere, is freely taking its way,
As a man suffers in moldy decay,
Foulness grooms his battered skin,
As his body is free to pour foulness in,
The moldy man is a suffering, slimed snake,
Gasping to devour its victim,
The man’s skin rotted and fouled is as the shedded skin of a snake in slime,
Suffering in foul play, he’s a decayed victim of moldiness,
In his battered skin of foulness; free for foul play.
Theodore Arthur Pinnock
June 28,1980
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Submitted by dr_pinnock on November 21, 2023
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Scheme | AABBXXXXA XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 469 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 2 |
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