Of Fallen Heroes
Guns, guns, guns.
How they kill our daughters and our sons.
How they break the silence of the night
Bullets flying left, and flying right.
Run for cover if you can,
But the bullets find their man.
Shattered hopes and shattered dreams,
Gushing blood in crimson streams,
Perfect bodies smashed and broken
Words that have not yet been spoken.
Hear the doleful, whining bagpipes,
Coffins draped with stars and stripes,
Then the toll of a church's bell
As we bid them all farewell
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Submitted on April 22, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGG |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 462 |
| Words | 83 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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