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
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | aaBccBddBeeBffB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 89 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
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