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I Ever Want You For A Friend

Wallace Dean LaBenne

I ever want you for a friend, nothing more or less
I never want us to pretend
or just acquiesce

I ever want you for a guide, nothing more or less
I never want us to collide
or just deliquesce

I ever want you for a sport, nothing more or less
I never want us to contort
or just retrogress

I ever want you for a chum, nothing more or less
I never want us to benumb
or just coalesce

I ever want you for a coach, nothing more or less
I never want us to encroach
or just dispossess

I ever want you for a mate, nothing more or less
I never want us to berate
or just obsolesce
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXA AXA AXA AXA AXA AXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 552
Words 120
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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