This one commences with a two-word pronoun phrase
and also bears a compound predicate.
This wonderful specimen begins with self-praise
and ends with the old, adjectival “dedicate.”
This one’s small and cute like Connecticut.
Periodic, terse and inverted this one is.
Testing phrases with present participials,
this one will appear on tomorrow’s quiz.
This one’s trivial, with three dental-labials,
provides a fine example of asyndeton.
This bold one will seek to outlast the poem,
keeping self-analysis to a minimum,
and request asylum in another bard’s tome,
which means the reader will not see it end
while it slips through the page as the syllables tend…
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