Analysis of BRAINWASHING SCHOOL

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



From kindergarten onwards
We’re told how we must behave,
How to think and how to act ‘right’
And how to live as happy slaves.

Brainwashing school starts very early
So very early on in life,
Rebels will not be tolerated
They’ll be lucky just to survive.

Brainwashing school’s intended
To herd sheeple into line,
To make them politically correct
To control them body and mind.

The politicians started it up
But English teachers are guilty too,
Of bending and breaking young children’s minds
The most hideous form of child abuse.

From kindergarten to university
Our young are being brainwashed,
They’re learning how they must behave
All independence is being lost.

They’re not taught how to think for themselves
That just isn’t very highly rated,
Revels will be brutally reviled
Free-thinking is never tolerated.

Brainwashing school starts young in life
But adults can also be sent back,
For free-thinkers will suffer verbal abuse
Or like Pauline Hanson, physical attack.

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


Scheme XAXX BCDX DXXX XXXE BXAX XDXD CFEF XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110010 0111101 11101111 01111101 10111010 11010101 10111100 11101101 101010 111011 1110100001 10111001 00101011 110101101 1100101101 0110011101 110010100 1011101 11011101 10101101 111111101 111101010 101110001 110110100 1011101 101110111 11101101001 11011010001 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,029
Words 168
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

In Australia, political correctness has been taken well past obscenity, right through into insanity.

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Written on October 24, 2008

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 08, 2021

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Phil Roberts

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