These sodden streets have given me
A forlorn glee
I relish so
While walking slow
Soaked to the skin and lost in thought
My mind runs hot
With nasty things
That failure brings
This rain on my skin is a chill
I cannot kill
But still I walk
From block to block
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The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 (1 minute hah) syllables written in strict iambic meter. (ba-dum, ba-dum) The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff
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