Yellow Belly



Where are the men of days gone by?

Doused in their toxic masculinity,

Upon the soapbox or hills high,

Stirring all in the vicinity.

 

Muzzled one, I long for thy smile

Infectious, if I remember well?

Innate encounters gone awhile,

Fear rooted with the deathly knell.

 

Come one, come all, your knee must bend

Your compliance we desire,

Inoculations, a means to an end?

How many will one require?

 

 

About this poem

This poem talks about how cowardly this generation are.

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Submitted by kylekennedy1 on December 01, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A B A B C D C D E F E F
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 426
Words 99
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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