Analysis of A TAXING TIME
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
We pay taxes on our houses
Pay taxes for our lawns;
Pay taxes till our deaths
Since the day that we were born.
We pay taxes for our water
Pay taxes for the parks;
We pay taxes for the daytime
And taxes on the dark.
We pay taxes for our banking
Pay tax upon our air;
We pay tax upon our clothing
And on the length of our hair.
We pay taxes on our taxes
Pay taxes upon our rates;
We pay taxes on our interest
And on our Tax rebates.
We pay taxes for our fingers
For our knees, our legs, our toes;
We pay taxes for our foreheads
For our eyes, our ears, our nose.
We pay taxes on our injuries
Our gout, gall stones, and hernia;
We pay taxes on our blood
In Jeff Kennett’s Victoria.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | AXXX XXXX BCBC ADXD XEXE XFXF XXF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011010 1101101 1101101 1011101 111011010 110101 1110101 010101 111011010 1101101 111011010 01011101 111011010 11001101 111011010 011011 111011010 1101101101 11101101 1101101101 1110110100 101110100 11101101 0110100 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 725 |
| Words | 149 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
We pay taxes on our houses Pay taxes for our lawns; Pay taxes till our deaths Since the day that we were born.
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Written on February 13, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 31, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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