Analysis of SKANK ALERT
Chorus:
“Skank alert! Skank alert!”
We hear the red runner calling,
“Skank alert! Skank alert!”
Now democracy is falling.
Verse One:
“If your son is way too smart
“We’ve got the problem solved online,
“We’ll hook him up to electrodes
“They will help to fix his mind;
“He’ll never again defame girls
“Or say the evil “S” word,
“’Cause when the current’s flowing
“The electrodes truly hurt.”
Verse Two:
“We’ll fry his brains if necessary
“To bring him into line,
“He’ll never again buck the system
“’Cause he’ll no longer have a mind;
“So inform on your own son now
“It’s only for his own good,
“You don’t want him to speak his mind
“The way only rebels would.”
Verse Three:
“Yes an educated cabbage is
“What your son will soon become,
“No longer bucking the system
“Because democracy’s truly done;
“So bring him in for programming
“Just like any other laptop,
“Then we’ll get the electrodes on
“And free-thinking soon will stop.”
Verse Four:
“We’ll wire him up to bring him down
“To make him learn the rules,
“If the brainwashing isn’t working
“That we use on him in school;
“He’ll have to have an extra dose
“To force him to conform,
“We cannot let free-thinkers
“Continue to buck the norm.”
Verse Five:
“We’ll fry his brains like potatoes
“Until we can control his mind,
“No more will he call girls skanks
“He will have learnt to toe the line;
“No longer will he excel at school
“He’ll now get D’s instead of A’s,
“For to make him fit into the norm
“We had to fry his brain away.”
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 101101 11011010 101101 10100110 11 1111111 1101011 11111010 1111111 11001011 1101011 1101010 0010101 11 11111100 111011 110011010 11110101 10111111 1101111 11111111 0110101 11 11100101 1111101 11010010 011101 1110110 1110101 11100101 0110111 11 110111111 111101 1010110 1111101 11111101 111101 1101110 0101101 11 11111010 01110111 1111111 11111101 110110111 11110111 111110101 11111101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,648 |
Words | 287 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 3 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
About this poem
Australia's federal government has now strayed so far from democracy that not only is brainwashing compulsory in all schools, but they are now advertising a special online site for you to inform on your son if he is resisting politically correct training. The ads starts, "My son calls girls skanks, has he crossed the line?" Apparently yes, and the answer is to dob him in so that the government can force him to submit to an intensive brainwashing course. Even George Orwell did not imagine anything that evil! Yet it was being done in Australia as far back as 2011!
Written on February 18, 2011
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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