War, What Is it Good For? ~ Aug. 25, 2020
Cheyenne Seaman 2003 (Philadelphia)
War, what is it good for?
Pitting nation against nation,
Leaving folk dead, ill, and sore,
Aye! It tears our peace away!
The cold hard truth, Alas!
Everything in war is rationed.
Soldiers on the frontlines have no solace
As the world, they knew, crumbles away.
Folk don't ask and soldiers don't tell
Yet all know that the artillery
Kill left and right. Ain't that swell?
War, what is it good for?
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Submitted by RoseofVenus on March 18, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | A x a b x x x b c x c A |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 431 |
Words | 81 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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