Analysis of KEVIN’S EMPTY PROMISES
When Kevin Rudd makes a promise
We know it won’t be kept,
For when they handed out integrity
Old Kevin soundly slept.
He promises to help the starving
With a one-off pension bonus,
But for invalids forced onto New Start
The bonus is not for us.
Like the Reaper stalking victims
Into our lives, old Kevin crept,
But when it comes to helping us
As the poor say, “Jesus wept!”
He promises to tax the rich
Yet still, they call him, “Mate!”
He promised to help the poor
Yet still, we starve and wait.
He tells us he’s doing, “Real good!”
It’s a shame we just can’t see it,
He says he’s the best thing since frozen chickens
But the poor say he’s got no merit.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABXB XAXA XBAB XCXC XXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011010 111111 1111010100 110101 110011010 10111010 1110011011 0101111 10101010 011011101 11111101 1011101 11001101 111111 1101101 111101 11111011 10111111 11101111010 101111110 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 728 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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When Kevin Rudd makes a promise We know it won’t be kept, For when they handed out integrity Old Kevin soundly slept.
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Written on December 10, 2008
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 06, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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