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Trumpian Nightmares Continued

Trumpian Nightmares Continued

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President Trump’s dystopian vision
continued assault on American Values
festering, fostering deep dark divisions
leading to disunity and disvalues
constant attack on our truth values
president Trump sees us as the enemey
the public turning against their arch enemy.


1. lyrical verse that is flexible and can be written as a narrative. It can also be written as a commentary or literary burlesque.
2. often written in iambic pentameter but was originally simply decasyllabic.
3. stanzaic, written in any number of septets (7 line stanza) composed of a Sicilian tercet, followed by a quatrain of 2 heroic couplets, the first of which interlocks with the tercet.
rhymed, ababbcc.