Analysis of DARYL WILLIAMS’ BLUES (EVIL WORDS)
The minister for propaganda
Has evil words to say,
He slanders Celts and Saxons
Belittling our race.
He says that we’re all racists
We’re evil because we’re white,
And like those good men Boothe and Oswald
We’d love to get him in our sights.
He says that only blacks,
Gays, and women should have rights,
He says that mind games are fine
As long as they hurt only whites.
“Political correctness is fine and dandy,”
That’s what this most foul man wrote,
He doesn’t care about fairness
Now democracy has no hope.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | AXXXXXXB XBXBXXXX XXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001010 110111 1101010 0100101 1110110 0100101 011111010 111110101 111101 1010111 1111111 11111101 010001011010 1111111 1110110 10100111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
Daryl Williams was the minister for propaganda (or some such thing) in the early days of the John Howard regime. Williams set the scene for his brand of “democracy” the morning after the Liberals came to power in late 1996. When asked, on Channel 10, if he thought all Anglo-Saxons were racists, he said, “Yes, undoubtedly.” If Australia is a racist country, it is racist pigs like Daryl Williams who make it so! Not the 70% of Aussies from an Anglo-Saxon background!
Written on 1996
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 29, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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