Analysis of Friend of the Family
I love you
Yet I hate you
You are the hope of my future
You were my guidance in my past
My father despised you
But my mother adored you
You were her will to live
You were a constant guest in our home
You were the scent my mother wore daily
She neglected me for the happiness of you
She confided in you
But your greed took her away
After all the hurt and pain you caused
I welcomed you back into my life
But now you are my foundation
I finally see what my mother saw in you
You helped her cope with her wounds
Even though you helped cause them
My family doesn’t understand you
And honestly nor do I
You’ve ruined my past
And I have acknowledged
That you have ruined my future
You are the end of my tunnel
My whiskey bottle
Scheme | AABCAADEFAAGHIJAKLAMCNBOO |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111 1111 11011110 10110011 110011 1110011 100111 1001010101 1001110110 101011010011 101001 1111001 101010111 110110111 11111010 110011110101 1101101 1011111 11001011 0100111 11011 011010 11110110 11011110 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 725 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 573 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 147 |
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