Elephant

Vanshikha Akhariya 2009 (Jammu and kashmir)



An elephant slept in his bunk,
And in slumber his chest rose and sunk.
But he snored — how he snored!
All the other beasts roared,
So his wife tied a knot in his trunk.

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This poem is about a elephant sleeping

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Written on January 14, 2022

Submitted by vanshikhaa2019 on January 14, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABBA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 170
Words 39
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5

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