Analysis of THE YELLOW COWARDS WHO CREEP IN THE NIGHT (Murdering Innocent Men, Women, And Babies)

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



In Zimbabwe’s forests at night
Foul, yellow cowards creep,
With a madman for a ruler
Democracy sells cheap.

The yellow cowards slaughter
Good men, women, and babes;
North America’s Terrorist Organisation
Sits restful on its brains.

A slimy piece of walking filth
Sits in the leader’s seat,
While in the dead of Zimbabwe’s night
Gutless, yellow cowards creep.

White farmers and black farmhands
Just want to earn their keep,
But with the UN’s tacit blessing
Foul, yellow cowards creep.

They creep in the dead of night
Too yellow to show their faces,
The UN twiddles its collective thumbs
While cowards commit disgraces.

Black-supremacists on the UN
Fought South Africa’s Apartheid,
But are blind to Zimbabwe’s fate
Since only whites have died.

A Desert Storm was fought and won
To protect the US oil enclave,
But no one’s fighting yellow cowards
Murdering the good, the pure, the brave.

An election was rigged to help
A madman stay in power,
Yellow cowards creep along at night
In democracy’s darkest hour.

THE END
© Copyright 2011
Philip Roberts, Melbourne, Australia


Scheme aBcb cdex xxab xbxB axxd eaxx efxf xcac xax
Poetic Form Tetractys  (26%)
Metre 011011 110101 1011010 010011 0101010 111001 101001000010 110111 01011101 100101 1001111 1010101 110011 111111 11011010 110101 1100111 11011110 01110101 110011 10100101 11101 111111 110111 01011101 1010111 111101010 100010101 10101111 011010 101010111 011010 01 10 101010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,051
Words 177
Sentences 9
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

We all fought to bring down apartheid in South Africa; but the UN has turned a blind eye to Super-Apartheid in Zimbabwe, since the victims are all white, sp apparently do not matter!

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Written on February 04, 2009

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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