Tell Your Children
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I wrote this poem because I am a victim of Bloody Sunday and the Civil Rights struggle for the right to vote in the 1960s. It is profoundly sad to see that it is still a struggle.
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Written on January 26, 1998
Submitted by jackiehf1123 on July 20, 2023
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| Scheme | A A B B |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 56 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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