Analysis of LIFE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE EASY



Chorus:
Life was never meant to be easy
But it’s harder for some,
                            than for others,
Life was never meant to be easy
But it’s the working man who
                            mostly must suffer.

Verse 1:
Now Malcolm tells us all
                              a load of bullshit
Malcolm tells us all a pack of lies
Malcolm tells us life can’t be easy
When Malcolm speaks democracy dies.

Verse 2:
Now Paul ‘The Dork’ is shouting
                                             loudly at us
Keating’s heaping us with foul abuse,
He thinks he is the greatest thing
                                   since sliced bread
But frankly, we all think that
                                            he is no use.

Verse 3:
Now Little Johnny wants to crush
                                         the Unions
Now Little Johnny thinks he’s
                                        big and brave,
But the voters stomped him out
                                       three years back
His IR laws are safely in the grave.

Verse 4:
Now Kevin Rudd is just as bad
                                            as Malcolm
And just as weak as poor old
                                           Little John,
Now Labor is in power once again
Democracy is surely dead and gone.

Verse 5:
The Runner's running out of mad ideas
She’s beating up on all the unemployed,
Her whacky backy ideas are all over
And good times now can never be enjoyed.

THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme aBcxBxd exxfbf egahgxxh exxaixxi excxxxx exjdj xxx
Poetic Form
Metre 10 111011110 111011 1110 111011110 1101011 10110 1 110111 0111 101110111 101111110 110101001 1 1101110 1011 11011101 11110101 111 1101111 1111 1 11010111 010 1101011 101 1010111 111 111110001 1 11011111 110 0111111 101 1101010101 0100110101 1 01010111010 110111001 0110101110 0111110101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,485
Words 209
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 7, 6, 8, 8, 7, 5, 3
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

I wrote this song lyric c.1977, concentrating solely upon that feeble-minded idiot Malcolm Fraser. Then during the reign of error of Julia Gillard, I radically rewrote it.

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Written on 2017

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 02, 2021

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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