Analysis of Preemption
Must we debate and justify
The preemptive strike of war,
When we possess "intelligence"
Of schemes, plans and plots of horror
Where there's no life-allegiance?
Democratic freedom they abhor.
Must we Pearl Harbor overlook
The bomb blitzing, sneak attack
Setting aside the lessons learned
Perfidy and decoys distract
While our ships and sailors burned?
And after the fact we then fought back.
Must we forget day Nine-One-One
The innocent crushed alive
New York Trade Towers toppling down
Firefighters and police arrive
Suffocate in dust to drown?
Terrorists finagle and contrive.
Scheme | XABXBA XCDXDC XEFEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 0010111 11010100 11101110 1111010 01010101 1111010 011101 10010101 10001001 11010101 010011111 11011111 0100101 111101001 10000101 100111 100100001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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