Analysis of MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DON’T!
In some far off time and place
A would-be employer says,
“Sorry boy, no monkeys here!”
Now in high office
He exploits his position,
Bitter and twisted down the years.
“Sorry boys (and girls),” he says
“It’s time to make your lives,
“Sad, and lonely, and drear.”
The Draconian chant goes out
Its message is sick and twisted,
And oh so frightfully clear.
Steve Bracks answers the call
Drops his trousers and offers his arsehole,
To this man whom we all fear.
Steve Bracks chickens out again
Forgetting about his morals,
As he offers up his rear.
“Fuck me massar long and hard,”
This tiny, feeble man says,
In a voice so loud and clear.
And so a very small man
Terrorises the four million,
Getting revenge after all these years.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XABXCD AXBXXE FFEXXE XAEXCD XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 0110101 1011101 10110 111010 10010101 1010111 111111 101001 00100111 11011010 0111001 111001 111001011 1111111 1110101 01001110 1110111 1110101 1101011 0011101 0101011 10110 100110111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 791 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
A racist (anti Anglo-Celt) politician decades ago in Australia explained his racist policies as getting evil for a racist slur (see verse one) that occurred when he first came to Australia. He makes a strong case for you having to be born in this country to be a politician here. Once we allow racist politicians, or bigotted judges to "redress the balance", then we have given up on democracy once and for all.
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