Effective Rhetoric
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Skilled.
And dramatically effective,
Is the language used these days.
Purposely persuasive enough,
To convince and it to believe...
Could actually be,
Not only a strutting Duck.
But also a feather spreading Peacock.
Claiming to have abilities, if chosen to prove...
Can fly higher than a patriotic Eagle.
Whenever this is needed to do.
With a doing never meant to intend,
A disappointing to represent their interests.
So skilled is the language used.
And effectively persuasive enough.
To have people leaping up off their seats.
Cheering and applauding,
What they have yet not to see.
Although...
Remain accepting to protect and defend,
Visions of images to imagine them.
Implanted in their minds to delude and fiction,
Themselves to be more beautiful than Swans.
Supporting a Duck.
Strutting around quacking.
In full makeup applied by a hired glam squad!
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Written on December 25, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on December 25, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXAXBCXXXX DX XAXXB XDXXXCCX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 858 |
Words | 166 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 2, 5, 8 |
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