Uncle Chemist (Song)

by Khalid M Darwish   Aug 2, 2012


Uncle Chemist works in lab
Doing his own test
Making secrets hard to blab
Preparing contest

Adding acid to the base
Increasing care, just in case
Wearing a mask on his face
Working with no rest

Uncle Chemist's solution
Boils up in the flask
till it needs some dilution
sooner it will ask

Has something to isolate
filter his precipitate
and never throw the filtrate
showing interest

Uncle Chemist wears his coat
It's so clean and white
fully free of dirt and mote
ironed, reflects light

He has lecture to present
keeps attending, not absent
explaining with good accent
doing all his best

*24 lines divided into 3 octaves (each broken as 2 four-line sections) of 7/5/7/5 then 7/7/7/5. Rhyming is abab cccb, dede fffb, ghgh iiib

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  • 12 years ago

    by L

    Pretty awesome, I like what you did with this one.

    The story is very well written despite being constraint with the rhyming scheme, everything worked well. Also the syllable counts are good. I just checked one out of the three octaves but I'm going to assume that the other two are okay too.

    5/5