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Fidelity, Compulsion and Sleuth

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Blind fidelity
Dependable loyalty
Faithful allegiance

Slave to addiction
Prisoner to compulsion
Hostage to control

Desire colors truth
Memory modifies data
Bent is a poor sleuth
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAX BBX CXC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 169
Words 26
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3
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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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