Happy Accidents
Inventors persistent trials and ways
always creating something that will amaze
tinkering, endless hours of sweat
combination picking, though not just yet
on the verge of greatness discovery
backtracks and redoes for a full recovery
thinking ablaze fire in the eye's
constant fiddling of inventions to revise
all in the name of progress
another great product, bought to impress
patents and trademarks in government files
for all the things we shop for in the aisles
endless possibilities mix-matching parts
recipes from scratch using your smarts
frustrations, processes of wrong
learning curves sharp and often long
detailed inspections of another reject
hardened mindsets will complete the project
at last lightening in a bottle caught
from all those lessons that we're taught
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Submitted by Soul-to-song on June 08, 2021
Modified on May 01, 2023
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Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 776 |
Words | 120 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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