Friends And Mates Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Friendship has two wide welcome gates
Whence have come all the friends and mates:
Shared loves and interests,
Shared enemies and hates;
Friends endure long; mates have short dates.
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It looks like one but is no limerick, nor is it cast in anapaest metre. It is iambic tetra metre. All the five lines have the same rhyme. The mood too matches not with a limerick. The tone is serious.
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Musings | 04.03.04 |