Analysis of Getting by
Getting' By
By Bob Curran
10-12-2004
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Everyone’s in chat rooms looking for a date
I relax in my easy chair contemplating my fate
I write checks to pay the bills and hope they're not too late
With post offices closed because of anthrax
Everyone thinks there’s poison in that mail sack
Of one thing, we got plenty
That’s gossip
So don't give me no lip
and CD burners are starting to rip
Only thing left to do is yell and scream
So road rage becomes the next thing
This high tech world is coming to an end
As the internet boom promotes nothing but sin
What are my chances in space
To get off this rock
More men go into space every year
It’s not the lack of an atmosphere I fear
Try to escape this hellish place
To get the checks to the mailbox I’ll need my can of mace
Don’t go in a bar on a holiday
That used to be the place you could go
But now there’s designated drivers all over the place
I just need some space
Help me help me they can't hear the cry
Of some poor soul just trying to get by
Scheme | ABC DDDEFGHIIJKLMNOPPNNQRNNAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 1110 1 1 101110101 1010110110011 1111101011111 11100101110 1011100111 1111110 110 111111 0111011011 1011111101 11101011 1111110111 10101011011 1111001 11111 1110111001 1101111011 11011101 1101101111111 110011010 111101111 1111001011001 11111 111111101 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,000 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 790 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 201 |
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Submitted on October 26, 2017
Modified on March 14, 2023
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