Analysis of Fortunate Friendships
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Anyone fortunate to have established,
Long lasting and trusted friendships.
Will know them to have begun,
Becoming offended.
By a truth to speak it.
With an honesty that began,
Coming to hear.
Not to welcome it done.
A true friend could care less,
About pretensions kept to address them.
Or impressions to make,
To hide what is faked.
And this to realize in time,
Begins to open a closed stubborn mind.
To believe someone intentionally,
Is determined to express...
Their opinionated negativity.
A negativity never there.
Until one awakens aware,
That only another who shares...
Honesty and truth,
Can be relied upon to do it.
Regardless who chooses to refuse,
Hiding behind excuses, moods.
And childish attitudes.
'I hope you can forgive,
My disrespect shown to you!'
'When I told you to mind,
Your (*expletive) business.
And then you walked away to say,
Okay. Have it 'your' way.
To leave with nothing more to me said.
That done to me stayed on my mind.'
'I knew it would.'
'How could you?
Other people would have argued.
Other would have told me what to kiss.
Give me the finger.
And left me quick.'
'I'm not other people.
I'm that friend,
You obviously have not had.
And...
I was hoping you would be offended.
And happy to me you apologized.
Even though it took you long enough,
To realize...
I am your friend.
Not your 'foe'.
And...
For whatever the reason is,
Those people who talk about others.
Including you they talk about,
Behind your back to laugh in your face.
You believe are your friends.'
'What are you saying?
Who are they then?'
'Not your friends!
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Metre | 1010011010 11001010 1111101 010010 101111 11100101 1011 111011 011111 010101111 101011 11111 0111001 0111001101 101101000 1010101 101000100 00100101 01101001 11001011 10001 110101111 010110101 10010101 01010 111101 101111 111111 110010 01110111 11111 111101111 11111111 1111 111 10101110 101111111 11010 0111 111010 111 11000111 0 1110111010 010111010 101111101 110 1111 111 0 1100101 110110110 01011101 011111011 101111 11110 1111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,513 |
Words | 283 |
Sentences | 43 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 13, 2, 6, 1, 5, 16, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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