Analysis of The scandalmongers charter
JP. 1948 (United Kingdom)
THE SCANDALMONGERS CHARTER
Perniciously gathering scandal and bile
In secret clandestine they add to the file
Invasively trawling without nets you can see
Their version of News from a press they call free
Unguarded comments alone in your head
Collected by thought police quoted as said
Mobile phone transcripts dissected, distilled
Information for sale will always be billed
Targeting someone or no one at all
Type Face without conscience that I can recall
Their Creed is The Public has a Right to Know
A beast with two faces but one only on show
The Law a sharp tool if it works for their ends
A barbaric injustice if they have to make amends
Their crimes are well hidden on a balance sheet line
But filed and on record and biding their time
In treachery turned on their cohorts in wrong
Thrown down to the wolves those who do not belong
A corporate face now denying their fault
As advertising withdraws signifying revolt
Yet caught by the digital trail they had used
In the Email evidence they held on the abused.
Now gone are the names on the Scandal Sheet masts
Redeployed saints and sinners are never outcasts
Scheme | X AABBCCDD EEFFGGXX HHXXIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110 11001001 01001011101 11011111 11011101111 0101001011 01011011011 101101001 010111111 100111111 1101101111 11101010111 011110111011 01011111111 00100101111101 111110101011 11010101011 01001111001 11101111101 01001101011 11000110001 11101001111 0001100111001 11101101011 0110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,093 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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