Analysis of Cruel Kindness
Jerry Murphy 1968
You up high, me down low
Maybe we should just go.
But oh no, you needed space
Well my friend that's a lonely place.
You asked for a ring, that's an easy thing
but I knew you could not lift the gift that I bring
A movie question, an integrity lesson.
Now all we share is some kind of cruel kindness.
You still high, me still low.
Time to let it go, at least friends tell me so.
But I say no, for I need to know...
why be so cruel to my kindness.
Scheme | AABBCCDEAAAE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 101111 1111101 11110101 1110111101 111111101111 010101010010 111111111010 111111 11111111111 111111111 111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 332 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 173 |
About this poem
just a hope of a friend who can sit down and trust me that I give my heart fully
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Written on 2021
Submitted by gtmurphy1 on November 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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