The poem has a first introductory room where the crowd of people exiting the subway is compared to an ignoble procession.

A second room follows that shows the longer lines that it aims to recreate also on the sound level: the frenetic rhythm of the employees who go to work in the city of London, because they are pressed by the fear of arriving late.

Still in the same room, the poet confesses to feeling humiliated in looking at the ignoble haste of these people who, mixing with each other, do not have a specific identity.

Even the use of the expression "wallet carring" (women's notebooks) emphasizes the economic aspect that is the reason for all this haste. People are reduced to their legs, running without knowing and without following a precise direction. All that worries them is the fear of being late.

The second stanza ends with the subject pronoun "I" through which the poet distances himself from the crowd.

The fundamental word that explain and express the poet's feelings is the noun "humiliation" located at the end of the verse in order to remain in the reader's memory.

The third stanza is striking for its brevity and therefore in addition to having a value, it has an epigrammatic flavor, that is, it remains fixed with the humiliating adjective, which, being a progressive aspect (therefore a gerund), underlines the feeling of continuation of humiliation which is not limited in viewing the scene.

The message that the text seems to want to suggest is that human beings are pressed by economic needs that make them lose the sense of life.