Analysis of When Reason Falls



It’s hard to do the right thing
  when fate calls your name out loud

Where not only the bad get punished
  in its pursuit

The world has lost its way
   along the path of least resistance

Our ethos dueling the hunger pangs
  of human nature at its root

So many have been killed
  in the ageless battle for truth immortal

A deadly fight with rules afoul
  that change from night to day

The sun though always rising east
  the moon diverts its purpose

As reason falls when memory stalls
  —the righteous kept at bay

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)


Scheme XX XA BX XA XX XB XX XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011 1111111 111001110 0101 011111 010111010 1010100101 11010111 110111 00101011010 01011101 111111 0111101 0101110 110111001 010111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 539
Words 98
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 07, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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