Analysis of It’s no life having to crawl
philip lacey 1956 (United Kingdom)
Decisions are made in political games
Deals made behind the scenes
The man on the street though he tries to compete
Has no part at all in their schemes
Life on the dole when you’re hungry and cold
Surviving on petty cash
Feel humiliation anger and frustration
Discarded human trash
It’s a hard life living from hand to mouth
It’s a hard time surviving at all
When you have to kneel and beg for a meal
It’s no life having to crawl
Scratching for pennies to purchase some bread
Receiving final demands
Clothing in need of needle and thread
But there’s plenty of time on your hands
There are holes in your shoes and the leather’s abused
Bringing blisters upon your feet
There is nothing that’s worse when money is scarce
When you’re struggling to make ends meet
It’s a hard life living from hand to mouth
It’s a hard time surviving at all
When you have to kneel and beg for a meal
It’s no life having to crawl
Checking through classifieds day after day
Hoping that work will appear
But employments still scarce there’s no reverse
Your Aspirations disappear
Though you may be willing and able
Like any mothers son
A stigma’s attached to this unemployed label
That prevents you from getting on
It’s a hard life living from hand to mouth
It’s a hard time surviving at all
When you have to kneel and beg for a meal
It’s no life having to crawl
Scheme | xxaxxbcb DEFE ghghxaxa DEFE xixijcjx DEFE |
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Poetic Form | Song |
Metre | 01011001001 110101 01101111101 11111011 1101111001 0101101 10010100010 010101 1011101111 101101011 1111101101 1111011 1011011011 0101001 100111001 111011111 111011001001 10100111 11101111011 111001111 1011101111 101101011 1111101101 1111011 10111101 1011101 1010111101 101001 111110010 110101 0101110110 10111101 1011101111 101101011 1111101101 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,351 |
Words | 247 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 8, 4, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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