Analysis of THE IDIOT ON THE HILL
"Life was never meant to be easy"
Said the idiot to the crowd,
Bullshit resounds in Canberra
The truth is not allowed.
An enemy of the public
A loathsome ne'er-do-well,
Rampaging against the unemployed
But now he burns in hell.
A pariah amongst the people
Whose scorn he soon called down,
Rampaging across the political stage
Like a painted, leprous clown.
A razor-tongued viper
Born in wealth and privilege,
Tormenting the poor and suff'ring
Then starving them cross the edge.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | XABA CDXD XEXE XXCX XXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011110 10100101 11010 011101 11001010 010111 1001001 111101 001001010 111111 1001001001 101011 010110 101010 100101 1101101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 542 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
Mad Malcolm Fraser was one of Australia's two most evil prime ministers (along with Tony 'The Evil' Abbott). Fraser spent 7 years in office, with two main objectives: 1) To wipe out the union movement and reduce the working class to slaves, 2) To brutalise and terrorise the unemployed. He failed at the first, but succeeded beyond his maddest dreams at the second. He invented the semi-obscene term 'bludger' to slander the unemployed and started an unrelenting pogrom against them, which continues to this day. This poem was written to celebrate his death! more »
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