Analysis of THE GRUESOME 20
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
When the Gruesome 20 start to gather
Then you know they’re making evil plans,
Plans to help the greedy fascist elite
By gravely robbing from the common man.
And when the anti-fascist's rally
The media puts them quickly in their place,
By lyingly calling them anti-capitalists
Their morals have gone without a single trace.
The anti-fascists fight for human good
But evil forces ever rule the day,
With governments and media in cahoots
Truth simply cannot find a way:
A way to reach the common man
In time for him to think or act,
The media always does an evil job
Concealing from us all much-needed facts.
As capitalists fight for goodness
Stormtroopers start wielding great batons,
To fight for wrong and keep good down
To terrorise and move the heroes on.
For evil forces rule the world today
And only mega-big business is allowed,
Human freedoms and individualisms
Are restricted and the people are cowered.
The Gruesome 20 do not support the truth
And give the populace little hope,
Democracy is quickly dying out today
And freedom now has very little scope.
Terrorists rule most “free” countries
The Gruesome 20 is in firm command,
Blighting all the world around, so it seems
At the sweep of their evil hands.
For terror is now a way of life
In this foul universe today,
Freedom’s loss is too great a price
But it seems the price we have to pay.
Big business is assuredly the enemy now
The enemy of truth and democracy,
And though we hope for justice soon
Justice is nowhere we can see.
The Gruesome 20 fight to help the mega-rich
Big business, and gross tax-evaders,
And when the poor dare beg succour too
We discover succour is no more in favour.
So only the wrong now have any rights
The rest of us it seems can all starve,
And with the help of the media flunkies
The Gruesome 20 are all still at large.
The Gruesome 20 always stand for evil
Goodness now will never be tolerated,
The poor man starving in the streets
Is robbed to help multi-national tax violators.
No more can poor men dream of hope
No more can we dare dream of freedom,
As the Gruesome 20 conspire against us
Our final hopes most surely are all gone.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCD EFXF XGXG DXXX HXXX GXBC XIGI XXXX XGXG XEXE XJXA XXBX XXXJ IXHX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110 111110101 1110101001 1101010101 01010110 01001110011 11101101000 11011010101 0101011101 1101010101 11000100001 11010101 01110101 01111111 0100111101 0101111101 110001110 1110101 11110111 11010101 1101010101 01010110101 101001 1010001011 010110101 010100101 010011010101 0101110101 10011110 01010101 110101111 10111101 110110111 0111001 10111101 111011111 1101010001001 01001100100 01111101 1011111 0101110101 110011010 01011111 1010111101 1100111101 011111111 0101101001 01011111 01011110 1011101100 01110001 11111010011000 11111111 111111110 1010010011 10101110111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 2,149 |
Words | 395 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
I can only imagine that Australia (a politically unimportant nation with no world power at all) gets into the G-20 because of our crawling attitude towards America. The U.S.A. likes low-life grovellers like the Brits and Aussies, but cannot stand nations like Canada and France who dare to stand up to American bullying. By comparison, the political motto in Canberra is, "See a dirty American backside; lick it clean for them!" [Actually I cleaned up that last bit!]
Written on April 24, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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