Analysis of F(r)iend



I know she doesn't love me.
She visits everyone.
When its looking bright.
She'll shade me from the sun.
She is all I've got.
Probably my best friend.
Though she isn't real.
I like to pretend
It's a sense of duty.
Much less out of care.
Always there beside me.
My keeper of despair.


Scheme ABCBDEFEAGAG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011 11010 11101 111101 11111 100111 11101 11101 101110 11111 11011 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 281
Words 64
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 212
Words per stanza (avg) 54

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The usual depressing stuff.

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Submitted by RyanBlackborough on April 05, 2024

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Ryan Blackborough

For years he lived in a secret government facility. One day they found him and were like "what the fuck are you doing here?", and they shot him. Now he wanders the earth as a ghost, a poet ghost (not a ghost writer, he's way cooler than that). For some reason he can wear hats but if he walks through a wall or something (not like tables or small stuff) the hat falls off. He's lost a lot of nice hats. more…

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