Analysis of Companionship

George Chow 1976 (台灣)



The hospital bed puts me low.
Its tells my own bed for the better.
And i know now how to firm life.
What i have been..
to this gift of fate.
Remember the youth,
as a companion now.
For a ship..
nothing more..
but i survive the way.
Love lives.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 0101111 111111010 01111111 1111 11111 01001 100101 101 101 110101 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 243
Words 60
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 50

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Submitted by greyown on October 15, 2022

Modified on April 16, 2023

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George Chow

I was born in Taiwan. An immigrant in California US. studied. been work place to place. Now home play the play. more…

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