Analysis of BOOK BURNING
Book burning’s back in favour
And Old Bony’s on the nose,
In a garden where but lies are seeded
And only evil grows.
A white man cannot be black
This is the truth indeed,
Purity of black ideals
Is what they say we need.
Australia was a land of truth
But the truth is now unknown,
In a place where only lies flourish
And evil seeds are sown.
For democracy is an illusion
And confusion is in style,
Truth and justice both have flown
While “correctness” does defile.
For Bony is a white man’s dream
And white’s have got to go,
From this land of fallen hopes
Where truth is on the nose.
A land that dreamt of equality
But equality has gone,
The lucky country is now unlucky
When all is said and done.
For Kauris have the copyright
On their race, their face, their clothes,
And white men have to stay inline
And Bony’s got to go.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC DECE XFXA GXGD XXCF XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 011101 0010111110 010101 0111011 110101 1001101 111111 01010111 1011101 001110110 010111 1010011010 0010101 1010111 101011 11010111 011111 1111101 111101 011110100 1010011 0101011010 111101 111010 1111111 0111111 01111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 880 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
About the evils of political correctness in Australia - where white authors are not allowed to create Aboriginal characters since the Aboriginal Elders claim they have worldwide copyright on Aboriginal characters!
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Written on July 16, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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