Only A Tiger (Nursery Rhyme #48)
Only a Tiger will approach a Tiger,
Lions never do
To give him pause and make him think,
“What will this Tiger do”
All other beasts he rests cocksure,
a meal they will become
But faced with one of his own kind
—to stay or then to run
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
‘For Kiley, Hunter, Braden & Parker’
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 02, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on March 02, 2020
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Scheme | AB XB AX XX XA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 314 |
Words | 58 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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