Analysis of My mother was right



Thinking back to childhood and
the friendships I thought I understood.
When really it was all a lie,
Just part of time needing to pass by.
My mother said one day we would all grow apart.
I just knew she was wrong, deep in my heart.
A bond so strong, stronger than blood
A natural born sisterhood, not so unheard of.
We did everything together, never apart
these girls were the biggest piece of my teenage heart.
As time passed though, things were done and said
I couldn't believe this was happening, had it all been inside my head?
These girls I thought I knew so well, I would have died for.
Turning thier backs on me, friends no more.
All over a guy, that I never even saw
But he was enough for them to end it all.
After years of friendship, sharing clothes and each others beds.
Five years, then ten, not another word has been said.
Guess my mother was right, when she said it wasn't real.
Crazy though, how our teenage souls can feel.


Scheme ABCCDDEFDDGGHHIJKGLL
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 101110 01011101 11011101 111110111 110111111101 1111111011 01111011 0100110011011 11100101001 11001011111 111110101 110011110011110111 1111111111111 1010111111 110011110101 11101111111 10111010101101 111110101111 1110111111101 1011101111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 940
Words 193
Sentences 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 730
Words per stanza (avg) 178

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Teenage friendship gone

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Written on January 16, 2022

Submitted by scottamy08 on January 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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