[America, thy unbecoming arrogance]”
Matthew Sean Markonis 1984 (Santa Barbara)
America, thy unbecoming arrogance
So stately blinds,
Is like star-spangled underpants
On rude behinds.
Thou makest war of ‘treason’,
With blunt interludes between
Combat and that ‘reason’—
Grand—which you pride but try to wean
Intellection opportunely from:
In favor of that ringing drum
Of errant warlord’s ‘sympathy’;
So neatly dumb are we.
War is all a naughty chore,
Composite of citizens’ fear,
Who cling each dragging day the more
To freedoms dead but dear.
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Submitted by msmarkonis on January 30, 2022
Modified on April 18, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA BCBCDDEE FGFG |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 493 |
Words | 84 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 4 |
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