Analysis of THE MAN-GIRLS FROM BEIJING

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



Bulging mannish thighs
And arms as thick as tree trunks:
Beijing’s mannish girls;
These steroid queens are soiling
The once pure sport of swimming.

Beijing’s mannish girls
With shoulders broad as mountains,
Voices deep as a man’s;
They claim they are not cheating
These mannish girls from Beijing.

Four-foot high at most
Shoulders five or six-foot wide,
We’re told they are not cheats
But how can we believe it?
When our eyes say otherwise!

Man-girls are cheating
No matter what Beijing says,
How can they be fair
When each is built like an ox
In just the upper torso?

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


Scheme axBcc Bxxcc xxxxa cxxxx xxx
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 0111111 111 101111 0111110 111 1101110 101101 1111110 11111 11111 1011111 011111 1111011 1101110 11110 110111 11111 1111111 010101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 627
Words 109
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 3
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

About the steroid abuse of young Chinese girl swimmers.

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Written on February 08, 2009

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

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