Analysis of THE NOT-MUCH MAN (Being a report from one palaeanthropologist to another)
The story of the Not-Much Man
Is a story that brings no joy,
The poor just call him, ‘Rudd the Dud.’
The Rich say, ‘Kev's our boy!’
The Not-Much Man is wondering
How he can fix the future,
But he’s happy to leave us dying now
That’s the brutal truth for sure.
The Not-Much Man just says,
‘Today is dead and gone,
‘It’s not my fault the poor won’t die out
‘Why must they keep living on?’
The Not-Much Man is cretinous
He’s such a hopeless case,
He’ll let the pensioners die of hunger
To feed the greedy Master Race.
The Not-Much Man is lying
About the state of Australia,
He isn’t man enough to admit
After six months he’s a failure.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | XAXA BCXX DXXX DECE BFXC XXF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010111 10101111 01111101 0111101 01111100 1111010 1110111101 1010111 011111 011101 111101111 1111101 011111 110101 1101001110 11010101 0111110 01011010 11101101 10111010 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 714 |
| Words | 135 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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The story of the Not-Much Man Is a story that brings no joy, The poor just call him, ‘Rudd the Dud.’ The Rich say, ‘Kev's our boy!’
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Written on February 03, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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