Analysis of A REASON TO LIVE
When a man has reason to live
That's when he's most likely to die,
When he has more reason to live
He's even more likely to die.
When he has no reason to live
That's when he will live forever,
When he only wants to die
Death will touch him never.
When a man has had much more
Than any mere man can bear,
He longs to meet the Reaper
But Death is never there.
When a Man just longs for peace
And solitude from life's pain,
He goes to bed, weary of life
Yet has to wake again.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABABACBCXDCDXXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111011 11111011 11111011 11011011 11111011 11111010 1110111 111110 1011111 1101111 1111010 111101 1011111 010111 11111011 111101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 3 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
About this poem
Another existential poem from the early 1980s.
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Written on 1982
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 25, 2021
Modified on May 01, 2023
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