Larkin uses symbolism of objects to show his life by adding extra details "sixty-watt bulb" is a low lit bulb perhaps showing his dull life and the curtains being "thin and frayed" showing the physical state and well-being of the man. Also the idea he was "moved" could show end of life and death showing funerals.
The poem describes the man as having addictions of "fags" and "plugging at the four away" could be a metaphor for betting.
The final stanza is Larkin's comparison:
That how we live measures our own natures,
and at his age having no more to show
Than one hired box should make him pretty sure,
He warranted no better, i dont know.
The idea that you live your life for so long but at the end what do you really have left, than a "hired box" or coffin to symbolise the end of your life.
The rhyming pattern in this poem in each stanza is (A,B,A,B) the fact the pattern never changes could show that it represent simple and dull life the 'Mr Bleaney led'
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