Pawns
The Truth Ministry
America’s new religion
Preaching day and night
Servicing indecision
Making it all Right
Cut
Cut
Take II
Censorship
Corporate competition
Mainstream stomping and lynching
Slashed fact cleansing and rinsing
Are we just pawns so easily fooled
About this poem
The Elite and the working class
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Written on June 01, 1964
Submitted by Keithdalankford on November 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | abcbcDDefbggh |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 42 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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