A Wish Undeclared
Is Poetics
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Is Art
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Is Worship
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Is Freedom
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Is Family
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Is Duty
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Is Truth
just a wish—undeclared
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 18, 2018
Modified on March 08, 2023
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Scheme | AA XA XB XA XX CX CB XX C |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 293 |
Words | 55 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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