Analysis of 'No Last Goodbye'



You never really lose a friend
forever in your heart
Truant both to time and age
their love will not depart
You never say that last goodbye
with feelings much too strong
Memories real as real can be
—eternal they belong

(The New Room: July, 2023)


Scheme XAXABCXC B
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 010011 1011101 111101 1101111 110111 10011111 010101 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 250
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 26, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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