Analysis of DATA BASE



The C.I.A.'s evil database
Is being compiled day by day,
Of all the heroes in the world
Who they think they'll have to slay.

All the glorious freedom fighters
Who want to bring democracy back,
Anyone who opposes evil
Will find themselves under attack.

Rebels, like our Lord Jesus
Are being spied on day and night,
Because they dare to oppose things
Which they know just can't be right.

Anarchists who oppose terrorism
Are illegally being watched,
And if they stand up for justice
One way or another they will be stopped.

Injustice now is the Western Way
The way to keep all freedom down,
To slander rebels as terrorist
To see intolerance does abound.

The Big Brother Chip helps them
To spy on you over the Net,
If you fight for, write for justice
No more chances will you get.

They'll hack your PC, and locked you out
To stop you from telling the truth,
They'll slander you over the Web
And more evil things they'll do.

They'll invade your friendly country
And send evil goons around,
And if you won't admit their lies,
You'll end up underground!

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


Scheme XAXA XBXB CDXD XXCX AXXE XFCF XXXX XEXE XXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 011010 11001111 11010001 1111111 101001010 111101001 10101010 11011001 10110110 11011101 01111011 1111111 100101100 10100101 01111110 1110101111 010110101 01111101 110101100 110100101 0110111 11111001 11111110 1110111 111110111 11111001 11011001 0110111 10111010 0110101 01110111 11110 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,084
Words 202
Sentences 12
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

Six or seven years ago someone worked out that "Al Quaeda" is part of the Arabic term for data base. When confronted with this, surprisingly, the C.I.A. admitted that Al Quaeda the organisation had never existed. It seems Al Quaeda is actually a computer database the C.I.A. keeps of people who support freedom, democracy, justice. The C.I.A. watches them, terrorises them, and in extreme cases murders them!

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Written on July 20, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:03 min read
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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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