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
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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