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 |
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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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