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
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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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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