Analysis of Friendship
Friendship needs no studied phrases,
Polished face, or winning wiles;
Friendship deals no lavish praises,
Friendship dons no surface smiles.
Friendship follows nature's diction,
Shuns the blandishments of art,
Boldly severs truth from fiction,
Speaks the language of the heart.
Friendship favors no condition,
Scorns a narrow-minded creed,
Lovingly fulfills its mission,
Be it word or be it deed.
Friendship cheers the faint and weary,
Makes the timid spirit brave,
Warns the erring, lights the dreary,
Smooths the passage to the grave.
Friendship-pure, unselfish friendship,
All through life's allotted span,
Nurtures, strengthens, widens, lengthens,
Man's relationship with man.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD CECE FGFG XHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10111010 1011101 10111010 1011101 10101010 1010011 10101110 1010101 10101010 1010101 10001110 1111111 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 101110 1110101 10101010 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 669 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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