Analysis of CIRCULAR LOGIC



A bald-headed freak who gyrates
Like a fool spinning up there on stage,
Is polluting the political arena
And thinks that he’s some kind of sage.

‘Chuck rocks at the bitch if she speaks the truth,’
Are the words that this foul man spewed out,
As he contradicted himself with each word
That vomited from his ill-informed mouth.

‘She has no right to say what she does,’
Is what this foul creature first said,
‘If it’s her right to speak, it’s ours to throw rocks,’
Is the lie that passed from his head.

‘Punish her because she dares to think,’
Said this freak without a sane thought,
Circular logic flowed from his foul mouth
Conformity is what he’s been taught.

As a politician, his job was to protect her
But that’s not the way of this man,
His ideas are pointless and fleeting
Like children’s circles drawn in the sand.

Circular logic is always obscene
But so is this bald-headed, gyrating freak,
Though he never has anything to say
When in public he always must speak.

This bald-headed, gyrating geek
Has never believed in the truth,
Talking his way round in circles, so
It is justice that always must lose.

A beanpole without a brain
Yes, his head has brown matter inside,
And whenever he shot off his foul mouth
Truth seekers sat down and cried.

Sticks and stones will break his bones
With any kind of luck,
Then democracy can return
When this monster comes unstuck!

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


Scheme XABA CXXD XEXE XFDF XXXX XGXG GCXX XHDH XIXI XXB
Poetic Form
Metre 0110111 101101111 101000100010 01111111 1110111101 101111111 1101001111 11111011 111111111 11111011 110111110111 10111111 100011111 11101011 1001011111 010011111 100101111010 11101111 1010110010 110101001 100101101 1111110101 111011011 10101111 1110101 11001001 101110101 11101111 010101 111111001 0010111111 1101101 1011111 110111 10100101 1110101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,432
Words 261
Sentences 10
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 39
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 26

About this poem

A pop star turned politician this freak should have learnt from Mr Ed. Mr Ed never spoke unless he had something to say. This geak never has anything to say ... but that doesn't stop him talking!

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Written on September 18, 2008

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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