Analysis of Beyond Politics
What is this we hear ?
Austerity, austere.
What word is that,
for ordinary folk.
Little understood,
serious enough,
beyond a joke.
Clarity, transparency.
What ?
Bamboozling words,
designed to confuse.
Bureaucrats playing with
lives.
Putty in their hands.
They have the lot.
Where does it all end ?
Governed, squeezed,
right to the last.
At our expense,
taking a lend.
As mere mortals,
not our fault,
The banks, institutions,
the financiers,
have got it wrong.
No money in the pot
or in the vault.
Life goes on.
Beyond politics.
No money, no worry.
Enough to sustain,
Basics of a simple
life.
Still the city boys
run around and get
aboard the gravy train.
Scheme | XXXAXXA BXXXXXXC DXXXD XEXXXCE XXBFXXXXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 10001 1111 11001 1001 10001 0101 1000100 1 11 01101 10101 1 10011 1101 11111 101 1101 11001 1001 1110 1101 01010 001 1111 110001 1001 111 0110 110110 01101 101010 1 10101 10101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 5, 7, 9 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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