Analysis of The broken Promise
The promises you made
are things I now hate.
You told me you’d stay through joy and through pain,
but this empty lie is all to remain,
because I let you in and showed you my love,
I guess in the end, it just wasn’t enough.
So you walked away, not willing to stay,
making me want to return to this day.
If I knew that moment, what I know today,
you wouldn’t have turned my whole world into gray.
And the only thing that is now left for me,
is pain in my chest and a heart made of steel.
The promise you spoke
Was easily broke
but so artfully said
It’s still stuck in my head.
Scheme | XXA AXX BBB BXX CCDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011 11111 1111111011 1110111101 01111001111 1100111101 1110111011 1011101111 11111011101 1111111011 00101111111 11011001111 01011 11001 111001 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on September 10, 2021
Submitted by jelena.budimir on September 10, 2021
Modified by jelena.budimir on September 10, 2021
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