Analysis of I would rather be your friend
Yamikani Jamali Hassan 1992 (Malawi)
I am green with envy
As a love purse makes my heart heavy.
I love my lips sealed
And not to be lost in the intensity of the split second
Love is the apple of discord
To mystify, daze, confound,
And able to seize the heart
From being the apple of the eye
I won't like us as doves
I would rather see us as thick as thieves
So let's be friends and not lovers
To avoid the future stigmatizing us ex lovers
| Scheme | AAXX XXXX XXBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 101111110 11111 0111100010010110 11010110 110101 0101101 110010101 111111 1110111111 11110110 1010101001110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 406 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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This poems tries to portray the power of friendship over love
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