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Choose Democracy Cascade Poem


Choose Democracy Cascade Poem



choose democracy
or fascism
or rightism

That is the question
We must answer
choose democracy

Do we have a king
or a dictator
Or fascism?

No King Day is coming
protest
rightism



The Cascade is an intriguing exercise in repetition, where each line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line in subsequent stanzas in sequence. Therefore, the length of the poem depends upon the length of the first stanza, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1195-forms-unique-to-shadow-poetry/#casca...
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