Chicanery
Beguiling is chicanery:
the argument fallacious
A "smoke and mirror" trickery
with reasons always specious
The objective used in cavil;
it's faultfinding to annoy
Irritatingly uncivil,
disguised motives simply coy
Methods employed for subterfuge:
avoidance through artifice
Expedient wrangling is huge,
a clever, cunning device
Assertions offered for quibble
are mostly irrelevant
Mere cacophony and babble;
evasive but truculent
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 59 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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