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A Child Jabbers Spondees
Its feet are tiny dimeter,
Body, spirit, soul, trimeter,
Would you look at those ears and eyes
Whose tetrameter rhyme defies

Its foot with pentameter toes,
Smelled by monometer nose!
Don’t fret when its iamb voice speaks 
Cheerful quatrains for days and weeks.

Stand still while it jabbers spondee,
In stanzas of metered...

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Categories: jabbers, on writing and words
Form: Quatrain
Jabbers
Voices ringing with the same story 
Like they did long time ago 
For it's the only thing they know 
It's the only thing they can do
To jabber behind someone's shadow 

Vilifying day and night
They're like parrots jabbering 
About how sour a grape is 
For they...

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Categories: jabbers, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things