The Tightening Noose
Parents,
hover over their children
Adults,
smothering their young
Choices curtailed,
freedom spoon fed
Gallows
—for youth to be hung
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
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Submitted by Kurt Philip Behm on March 31, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 24 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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