Playing it by Ear
Greg Lanier 1962 (Atlanta, GA)
Those who paint by numbers
Are the bleakest of them all
The art of mediocrity
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE HALL!
I say, peacock!
Poppycock!
Go rake your ivy leaves
I’ll take my pen and old guitar
And sail the seven seas
The proposition I purport
If you’d care to hear
The only minstrels worth a damn
Are playing it by ear
Both thoroughbreds and pack mules
can one day bind the book.
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Submitted by GregLanier on May 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 72 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 4, 2 |
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