Talk Heard Around Any Dinner Table
Now!--relinquish all your torches,
No hand-offs to overt obscenity;
Don't dare defer any idle forces,
To garner accusational indemnity.
Now are the moment's reckoning,
Chin to chin, belly to belt-buckle;
Time to call bluff now impending,
Down to the grit n' bare-knuckle.
Sheer strings on puppet-politicos,
Challenge all the prevailing inertia;
Repaint a Capitol's hallowed walls,
No pass of crisis to future absentia.
This's razor's edge in gallant gleam,
To gut tyranny's slow-bleeding suck;
Lower noose on revelation's scheme,
No more extension passing a buck.
Do it for your children if not yourself,
Can you hand innocence to slavery?
Take that constitution off dusty shelf,
Show posterity meaningful bravery.
TB
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Submitted on June 08, 2016
Modified on March 22, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE FGFG HBHB |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 697 |
Words | 111 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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