Analysis of Cause For Pause
When your body feels aches and pain
And you foresee the exit lane
It gives you cause for pause
When days are short, things to complete
With problem demons to defeat
It gives you cause to pause
When time begins to pick up speed
And years are few to fulfill need
It gives you cause for pause
When you thought "old" was eighty-four
And eighty-two knocks at your door
It gives you cause for pause
When you find contemporaries
As you read obituaries
It gives you cause to pause
Scheme | aaBccBddBeeBffB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101 01010101 111111 11111101 11010101 111111 11011111 01111011 111111 11111101 01011111 111111 1110100 1110100 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 379 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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