Analysis of Phases of you



Where do we draw the line?
Where do we draw the line, between friends and lovers?
I don't think of my friends in the ways in which I think of you.
Since when do friends fall asleep on the phone and make their
Love known. I don't recall this being a friendly thing, Ive
Never known a friend who does the things you do.
I don't understand why you do this,
Push me away but pull me back when shes out of your mind
¨it's always about her¨ is all I hear but you
hold me so dear it seems as if it's out of fear,
  so tight as if I might disappear into the dead of the night.
But why?
I'm still here through all the phases of your love.
The waxing and waning
Between the full and the new
I'm your constant and I'm here for you.
I'm not the sun who lit up your whole world,
But I came to light up what's left,
After she took that light that had burned so bright
And extinguished you until you were nothing.
I was brought into your life to put  you back together by
Tearing myself apart in the process, I gave you
Every piece of me to feel whole again
So tell me now if this is what friends do
Before I spend my life wondering
If you think this too.


Scheme ABCDECFGCHIJEKCCLMIKJCNCKC
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 111101011010 111111001011111 1111101101011 1111111001011 10101110111 11011111 11011111111111 11010111111 111111111111 111111010101101 11 11111010111 010010 0101001 111001111 1101111111 11111111 10111111111 00101011010 111011111110101 10101001111 10011111101 1111111111 011111100 11111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,162
Words 265
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 874
Words per stanza (avg) 235

About this poem

I wrote this poem for a dear friend of mine who is more than just a friend

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Written on November 25, 2021

Submitted by carissabaker05 on December 06, 2021

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Carissa Baker

My name is Carissa baker and I am a junior at perquimans high school. I’ve always loved poetry and I use it as an outlet for my feelings. more…

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