Friends



This is strange if not thought well,
And to think of it not strange,
That at a time we are fortunate,
People should around us be,
But when difficulties encountered

all men scatter,
It's nature's way established long ago,
Success draw friends,
Failure scatter 'nd disper friends,
Such is life,

Real friends are as easy
to find as breaking a nut with an egg,
There are friends and also
there are real friends,
Friends eat the fortune

and scatter at failure,
Real friends build and preserve the fortune,
'nd standby with you at failure,
See! The two is quite different things,
But to know is quite a task.
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Written on October 16, 2017

Submitted by ilodubaisaac4 on July 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXAX BCDDX AXCDE BEBXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 583
Words 108
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5

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