Analysis of 2020’s NIGHTMARE VISION



2020’s nightmare vision
Is a vision that brings us pain,
While people starve in Melbourne Town
Rudd procrastinates again.

He orders all the premiers
To give him one big idea,
But when we ask to be helped now
He says, ‘No bloody fear!’

He’s planning for the future
But in the present, we have to starve,
He says he’ll give us nothing
So, ‘Be grateful for what you have!’

But all we have is poverty,
Misery and failure,
So he’ll plan ahead, forget us now
That’s the story of Australia!

So Rudd ‘the dud’ forgets us
And neglects us in our poverty,
He’s too busy hassling the Queen
To take away her sovereignty.

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


Scheme XXXX XABX CXXX DCBA XDXD XXA
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 10101111 11010101 101001 1101001 11111010 11111111 111101 1101010 100101111 1111110 11101111 11111100 100010 111010111 10101010 1101011 0011010100 111010001 11010100 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 682
Words 125
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

Written in 2009, this poem has nothing to do with the corona virus.

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Written on January 31, 2009

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 30, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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