For a friend
I cannot paint a masterpiece
Nor carve a precious stone
I cannot write a great novel
Nor compose an immoral song
I cannot fly the highest skies
To reach the brightest stars
But I can surely share with you
My hopes and my desires
I cannot give you something grand
Nor buy you a precious gem
But I can give you all my heart
My friendship all the same
About this poem
I wrote this poem in 1986 for my college friends before graduation. I entered this same poem here in poetry.com in the early 2000 but I cannot find it anymore. It originally has 4 stanzas.
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Written on February 14, 1986
Submitted by Eldiem on May 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 352 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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