Analysis of EDUCATED CABBAGES

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



In the 1970s the mind controllers
Had begun playing human cribbage,
Instead of raising young who question
They started raising educated cabbage.

Cabbages who have been brainwashed
To believe all the lies they’re told,
And with every lie they blindly accept
Their teachers’s lies become ever bold.

They boldly teach them still more lies
And teach them how to think and act,
Till the cabbages have soaked up so many lies
They cannot tell lies from fact.

Yes Generation-Sell-Out
Has replaced old Generation-X,
Where ‘X’ questioned everything they were told
‘Sell-Out’ believes the lies of those they elect.

So as the halls of academia
No longer strive to teach the truth,
They are nurturing educated cabbages
When they should be nurturing youth!

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme XXXX XAXA BCBC XXAX DEXE XXD
Poetic Form
Metre 00101010 101101010 011101110 1101010010 1001111 10110111 01100111001 11101101 11011111 01111101 101001111101 1101111 101011 1110101 111010101 11010111101 110110100 11011101 11100100100 11111001 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 804
Words 132
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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The young have sold out to political correctness, and are nothing but cabbages now!

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Written on February 05, 2009

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 09, 2021

Modified on March 28, 2023

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