Structure:
This poem is a villanelle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle ) comprised of 5-7-5 haiku.
Use of near-homophones to obscure line repetition (refrains) demanded by the villanelle form.
Except for said refrains, strictly metered.
They Won! (they threw it all away)
Dispose all intents
Disguising this illusion
Betterment in sense
Composite cadence
Every act imbibed and done
This prose: all intense
Expiring moments
Permeating past the guns
Better meant in scents
Expounding silence
Synchronistic with the sun
This pose: all in tents
Encroached insistence
Catalogs the course begun
Better men incensed
Distort transcendence
Rapture dwindled what was won:
Disposal intents.
... better mend innocence
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