Analysis of How To Live Forever
I think the way to keep time's march at bay,
is to blank out
all that has occurred this past thirty years,
or there about.
Only read books you've read before, the same
for music too,
all they write and play these days is rubbish
what's worse, it's new.
So live your life for nothing, you'll find time
will start to slow,
when a day is but a snowflake on last
night's field of snow.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101111111 1111 1110111101 1101 1011110101 1101 1110111110 1111 1111110111 1111 101110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 383 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
The way to make time pass more slowly is to make each day the same. That was the starting premise for this poem. Though I doubt it works. There is a line in a song by Leonard Cohen that was also in my mind: "You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record" (Famous Blue Raincoat)
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