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Snails

Robert G. Szymanski

The snail ain't slow
And it sure ain't fast
It doesn't need any gas
It carries it's house
It shares it's meals with a mouse.

The snail ain't cute
It share a root
It shares it's dinner with a mole
But to me, he's a winner!
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Submitted on April 16, 2018

Modified on March 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXAA BBXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 215
Words 46
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 4
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2 Comments
  • Wobbit
    Wobbit
    This is weird. My name is Robert Szymanski and I too wrote a poem about Snails....
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Robert Szymanski
    Robert Szymanski
    I'll add a comment alright.. poetry.com isn't around anymore and I couldn't retrieve my poems and here there is another Szymanski with the very same poem I had wrote! That's eerie....
    LikeReply5 years ago

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