Analysis of Want To Live

Edward Hubbard 1983 (Salt Lake City, Utah)



I am completed
Embracing all of my soul
I want to live now


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11010 0101111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 58
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

I've been struggling with suicidal thoughts more from an indifference to my life due to my depression. After doing some energy work alongside my regular therapy, I had a MAJOR paradigm shift. This haiku is what I wrote right after.

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Written on April 15, 2024

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Edward Hubbard

A father, husband, and student of Life, I have been writing since childhood with nigh a reason to stop. more…

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