Analysis of Whose Words meant All



I’ve never had a friend who didn’t hurt me,
  I’m told that’s just the price of getting close

I’ve never had a friend to not desert me,
  it’s always been the thing I hated most

I’ve never had a friend who crosses over
  that line so far away and growing thin

I’ve never had a friend that I could count on
  —whose words meant all to me but not to him

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
 ‘Comments From A Homeless Man In Las Vegas’   
                    August, 2017


Scheme AX AX XX XX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011111 1111011101 11010111101 111011101 11010111010 1111010101 11010111111 1111111111 0100101 10101010110 10
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 481
Words 85
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 04, 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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