by Nick Frontera

Created on: April 05, 2011   Last Updated: April 15, 2011

What I know is
I don't know much,
But this I know is what
is a chiasmus. 

And I know that stanza one
had been endstopped
twice, that this comma was a caesura,
And lines one and two of this stanza were enjambed.
This I know for sure.

And Alas! Look
It's Slant Rhyme personified.
Assonance above (I'm a four leaf clove).
Poetry I love.

And I know the the clove a metaphor.
I'm lucky I'm good with terms.
Literary, Poetic, rhetorical terms:
Who's good with 'em anyway?
An example of asyndeton.

And I know I'm not a poet
for I don't work well with iambs.
But I'm a good device-user right?
This I know I am.

And I know the "And this I know"s
are very anaphoric.
This term and that term and that term
are making you sick.
Polysyndeton.

But stop! I'm not being humorous.
This is simply what I know.
Please don't delete me.
Please don't make a fuss.

Perhaps look the words up
and it will all make sense.
What a terse ending to this poem.

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