Analysis of AND THE ANGELS CRIED

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



Albanese tried to end democracy
He cheated, he defamed, he lied,
And way up there in Heaven
John Curtin most certainly cried.

Ben Chifley was teary-eyed as well
As he watched Albanese below,
Wandering how much further down
Australia's Labor Party would go.

"How much further can they sink?"
Is what the angels wanted to know,
"Just how evil is Anthony Albanese?"
Is what they all wanted to know.

He tried to take down Australia
To destroy all are dreams and hopes,
But the Aussies stood for democracy
When they passed their glorious vote,

Now Albo is sulking like a baby
Because he didn't get his evil way,
We told him surely and firmly
"Democracy is here to stay!"

Now Albo calls us all racists
Because we saw through his lies,
And as he keeps on lying now
Up in Heaven, the angels cried.

What happened to Labour and
Their long-held percentage bent?
Because anyway you play the game
Three-point four is a tiny percent.

THE END
© Copyright 2023 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme ABXB XCXC XCAC DXAX AEAE XXXB XFXF XXD
Poetic Form
Metre 00101110100 11010111 0111010 11011001 11110111 111001001 10011101 010101011 1110111 110101011 111011000010 11111011 11111010 10111101 101110100 11111001 1101101010 0111011101 11110010 01001111 11011110 0111111 01111101 10100101 110110 1110101 01101101 111101001 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 998
Words 198
Sentences 10
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

Australia has only ever had two great prime ministers, John Curtin and Ben Chifley. How they must have cried in Heaven when they saw what Anthony Albanese had reduced the once great Australian Labor Party to!

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Written on October 19, 2023

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 19, 2023

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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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