Analysis of Goodbye my love



Goodbye my love,goodbye to you.There were many good times,but now we’re through.I cheated, I lied,I manipulated for you.And more than once ,I almost even died for you.I put you before anything else,my kids,my ffamily,God,myself.Its hard to leave you,we’ve been together so long but goodbye drugs,,it’s time to move on.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
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Characters 324
Words 63
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 249
Words per line (avg) 49
Letters per stanza (avg) 249
Words per stanza (avg) 49

About this poem

This poem is about me getting sober after living some years on drugs.They wanted us to write a letter saying goodbye to our addiction while I was in a treatment center.I wrote a poem instead& these words just flew out of me.

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Written on October 10, 1994

Submitted by Betheaevelyn737 on November 27, 2023

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Goodbye my love

While in treatment years ago I was asked to write a letter saying goodbye to my addiction of drugs.I wrote this poem in my rehab in the mountains and the words just fliwed out of me.They hung it in the hallway of the rehab for many years and said bye “we hope we don’t see you back”& they didn’t.Im a clean and sober grandmother of 6 who lost my daughter to addiction 2 years ago.Thank you.im in the red coat! more…

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