Analysis of It's Never Easy
It's never easy to give aid when you need support
It's always hard to invade from a foreign port
It's never easy to run free when you feel the slave
It's always hard to decree from a simple grave
It's never easy to stay true when you cast the slip
It's always hard to accrue from a sinking ship
It's never easy to feel well when you tap the pain
It's always hard to propel from a queasy bane
It's never easy to have lust when you see the dawn
It's always hard to adjust from an inept pawn
It's never easy to play dead when you live full bore
It's always hard to embed from a measly core
It's never easy to keep hope when you hear the news
It's always hard to elope from a boogie blues
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF GG |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1101011111101 11110110101 1101011111101 11110110101 1101011111101 11110110101 1101011111101 11110110101 1101011111101 11110111011 1101011111111 11110110101 1101011111101 11110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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