Analysis of LIVING COMPUTERS
Programmed like computers
Are the kids we raise these days,
Brainwashed since kindergarten
They do whatever the leaders say.
They never take the time to think
About the right to freedom of speech,
They believe whatever the controllers say
Every single lie they teach.
Programmed like living computers
With every single lie, they can find,
Raised as educated cabbages
Virtually without a working mind.
Like computer cards their minds have holes
With important bits cut out,
So they believe the lies of their teachers
And never dare think to doubt.
Like endless rolls of computer tape
The cabbages never think to question,
Doing whatever the leaders say
Following each brainwashed suggestion.
They take in whatever data is programmed
Like a floppy disc or CD-Drive,
They don’t know how to think for themselves
Their independence has surely died.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | AXBC XDCD AEXE XFAF XBCB XXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1011111 11100 11100101 11010111 010111011 1011000101 10010111 1110010 1100101111 11100100 1000010101 101011111 1010111 1101011110 0101111 110110101 0100101110 10100101 10011010 110101011 101011111 111111101 10101101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Programmed like computers Are the kids we raise these days, Brainwashed since kindergarten They do whatever the leaders say.
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Written on October 01, 2008
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 10, 2021
Modified on May 01, 2023
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