Analysis of JOHNNY’S EVIL IR LAWS
”Enslave the poor and outlaw unions!”
That was Little Johnny’s battle cry,
”Utopia is just beyond our sight
”So democracy must surely die!”
”The poor were born to suffer
”And they’ve forgotten how to fight,
”Eureka Stockade has been torn down
”So they’re stranded in their plight.”
”If we help our billionaire mates
”To get richer by evading taxation,
”And pauperise the unemployed
”Then we may yet fix the nation!”
”For poverty is a state of mind
”And our mates do not mind at all,
”’Cause when it comes to paying debts
”They will never get the call.”
”We’ve got to help our mates out
”That’s why they put us into power,
”Democracy is fine in theory
”But it couldn’t last an hour.”
”Not when our blessed boss-mates
”Tell us, we have to tax the poor,
"Taking away the most basic right
}We'll bleed the bastards raw."
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | XABA CBXB DEXE XFXF XCXC DXBX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010110 11101101 01001101101 101001101 0101110 01010111 01011111 1110011 11110011 11101010010 01001 11111010 110010111 010111111 11111101 1110101 11111011 111110110 010011010 1111110 1110111 11111101 100101101 110101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 941 |
| Words | 165 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
About a fascist tyrant named John Howard, whose ideal society had no unions, a return to slavery for the poor, and a death penalty for the unemployed.
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Written on January 20, 2011
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 26, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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