Analysis of DAMIAN: THE ANTI-CHRIST
We live on scraps and hand-outs
And YesWest asks, “Who cares?”
A brutal fiend named Damian
Leaves our larders bare.
Damian and YesWest –
What a strange and brutal pair,
They let us die of hunger
Claiming they have naught to spare.
So we go on blundering
Wondering why they just don’t care,
They say they’re doing all they can
But leave us in despair.
We beg and plead for charity
But charity is so rare,
They say to live on what we’ve got
But we can’t live on air.
So Damian is laughing
To see our larders bare,
Rejoicing in our misery
Delighting in our despair.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | XXXA BAXA CAXA BABA CAXA BXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 01111 01011100 11011 10001 1010101 1111110 1011111 1111100 10011111 11110111 111001 11011100 1100111 11111111 111111 1100110 111011 010010100 01001001 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 627 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
Nothing to do with the Omen novel or films. This poem is about a real-life fiend named Damien, who 15 years ago was head tyrant at an unemployment centre, in Footscray, called YesWest. In the end he was put out of business by the Australian Federal Police for all sorts of rorts. I was only too happy to be one of four-hundred+ people who gave evidence against him to the Feds.
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Written on February 13, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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