A Heroic Couplet (Iambic Pentameter)

A couplet is a very little thing,
Yet give it the right words and it takes wing.

poem by Philip Doolittle
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There was a young man from Japan
Who only knew how to make flan.
He said, “I just wish
That I had some fish
To cook in my new frying pan.”

limerick by Philip Doolittle
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