Analysis of Best Friend



Living without you I can't breathe
It stirs up all the dust inside of me
It tortures my soul with gasoline
it lingers the dark unseen
It steals my happiness beyond repair
Every minute of every hour that you're not here
When I can't dream in the dark because you're not by my side
When I linger in the tears I've cried
When happiness only becomes a feeling
When I want to scream at the ceiling
If I could shout out in the silence
Would it bring you back or make me tense
I want to lie in this bed and sleep
But I can't dream if this pain is too deep
I want to find you in the shadows
To be where your love grows
But waiting is dying and I can't scream
I want to put these pebbles inside this stream
To have you close to me again
Because right now I'm missing my best friend

A.D. Small
August 18, 2019


Scheme XXAAXXBBCCXXDDEEFFXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 10011111 1111010111 11011110 1100101 1111000101 100101100101111 11110010111111 111000111 11001001010 111111010 111110010 111111111 111101101 1111111111 11111001 111111 1101100111 11111100111 11111101 0111110111 11 10
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 814
Words 169
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 20, 2
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 313
Words per stanza (avg) 82
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Submitted by amberp.35129 on December 23, 2021

Modified on April 19, 2023

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