Analysis of The Best Friend Named Addiction

Re'Nee E. Vasquez 1986 (Salt Lake City, UT)



  From the very first time I  had took that first hit,
   You became that monkey on my very own back.

From then you had became my best friend name ADDICTION,
   As the years had gone by you had slowly dug you claws into my back.

Many times I have tried to shake you off of my back,
   The more I did the stronger your grip you had on me became.

For many times I had thought that I had finally won the battle of addiction,
   Right after the moment I felt victory you had came back stronger with a vengeance.

You steady laughed in my face reminding me that you were here to stay,
   The day had came for me to be the one to have the final laugh when I once and for all got rid of you for good


Scheme XA BA AX BX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 101011111111 101110111011 1111011111010 10111111101110111 1011111111111 011101011111101 110111111110010101010 110010111001111101010 11010110101110111 0111111101110101111011111111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 711
Words 154
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 52
Words per line (avg) 14
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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I wrote this poem after my battle and victory over the addiction

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Written on April 23, 2024

Submitted by neevasquez96 on April 23, 2024

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