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Summary of poem ?

Summary of the poem The Centipede?

Answer 1

One day a frog was sunning himself on a lily pad when a centipede came walking by. ... After all, his job was so easy, having to coordinate only two legs and two arms, while the centipede's was so much more complicated, having to balance one hundred.

Answer 2

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The Centipede's Dilemma" is a short poem that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome. The centipede effect occurs when a normally automatic or unconscious activity is disrupted by consciousness of it or reflection on it. For example, a golfer thinking too closely about her swing or someone thinking too much about how he knots his tie may find his performance of the task impaired. The effect is also known as hyper-reflection or Humphrey's law[1] after the English psychologist George Humphrey (1889–1966), who propounded it in 1923. As he wrote of the poem, "This is a most psychological rhyme. It contains a profound truth which is illustrated daily in the lives of all of us". The effect is the reverse of a solvitur ambulando..........