Dash
(dashes as punctuation marks)
The Dash
How dashing the dash is
So straight and so narrow.
It aims at a word like a spearor an arrow
And luckily hasn't a point at one end
Or it mightJust by accident
Puncture a friend.
But don't call it pointlessit passes for many
For comma, parenthesesjust about any.
It dashes about with the greatest devotion.
It's blunt,
It's abrupt
It creates a commotion.
It's used to gain emphasis, vigor, a touch
Of surpriseand it's alsoby some
Used too much.
For other marks of punctuation, go to the Index of Punctuation Marks unit.
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