LIFE OF CRIME



Standing on the corner doing no harm
Along came a flat foot and took me by the arm
When around the corner rang a little bell
Along came a police car and took me to a cell
At five o'clock in the morning I look at the wall
The bed bugs and the roach were having a game of ball
The score was 20 to nothing the bed bugs were a head
Then their hit a homer that knock me out of bed
At six o'clock in the morning the jailer came around
Gave me bread and butter the weigh a half a pound
The coffee tasted like tobacco juice the bread was as hard as steel
This the way there treated me in the New Jersey jail.

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Written on July 02, 2022

Submitted by SSIMP409 on July 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDDEEFG
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 600
Words 128
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

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