Analysis of THE BALLAD OF JUNIOR BUSH

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



Put into high office
By his brother’s insidious rorts
This evil, obtuse man
Certainly cannot be taught.

This sanctimonious cretin
His words are naught but a sham,
He promised to treat all fairly
Christian, Jew, or even Islam.

But his Gestapo fiends have kidnapped
Honest, decent Americans,
Locked away in secret locations
For practising Islam.

They’ve been locked away now
780 days and 780 nights,
Denied access to lawyers
Denied all basic human rights.

Now Junior is on the prowl
This sick man is on the rampage,
Now good men are locked away
Like wild animals in a cage.

We need some patriotic soul
To save us from Junior Bush,
If Richard Nixon could be shoved
Why can’t Junior get the push?

What does it take to remove
This tyrant from his ivory tower?
What does in need to put
This evil man out of power?

He didn’t win the election
His brother rigged the vote,
How do we restore democracy
And remove this evil old scrote?

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


Scheme AAXB CXDE XFFE XGXG XHXH XIXI XJXJ CXDB XXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 101110 111001001 110011 1001011 1010010 1111101 11011110 10111001 11010111 10100100 101010010 1101 111011 101 011110 01110101 1101101 1111101 1111101 11100001 1110101 1111101 11010111 1110101 1111101 1101110010 110111 11011110 1110010 110101 111010100 00111011 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 970
Words 177
Sentences 10
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 20

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This sanctimonious cretin His words are naught but a sham, He promised to treat all fairly Christian, Jew, or even Islam.

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Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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