Acrostic · Friendship
F-R-I-E-N-D (an Acrostic)
First to arrive when everything falls,
Refusing to say "I told you so,"
Insisting your worst jokes are funny,
Eating half your fries on principle,
Never keeping score (but always even),
Down for whatever, especially nothing.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- F-R-I-E-N-D (an Acrostic)
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 6 lines
- Form
- Acrostic, Short Poems
- Themes
- Friendship, Funny, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 6 lines · one 6-line stanza
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
- Line length
- Mostly 9-syllable lines.
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Text, source & rights
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Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalF-R-I-E-N-D (an Acrostic), authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 d13356f7d95964de…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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