Analysis of Your Poison
Broken smiles and battle scars
Cover me from the collateral damage
Your promises left unfulfilled
The vows you swore to keep
All those nights in bed
You slept on the other side
Silently rejecting me
Ripped apart my hope
Wore out my heart
And left me freezing in the dark.
Never in a million years did I think
Your retreating to other places
People you said mattered more
Meant I got punished
For loving you with devotion
All those times I did for you
Anything you asked
Made me a pauper
Bullying me to my knees
Begging for breadcrumbs.
What I asked for in return is gone
Never was there because
“I love you” were empty words
Everyday propaganda
You spoke like candy
Sweet but oh so phony
You wore a mask
Hiding your venom
I drank your poison
And I’m lucky to be alive.
Copyright © 2023 Charles Edward York
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| Metre | 1010101 10110010010 1100101 011111 11101 1110101 1000101 10111 1111 01110001 1000101111 101011010 1011101 11110 11011010 1111111 1011 11010 1001111 1011 111100111 101101 1110101 101010 11110 111110 1101 10110 11110 01101101 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,054 |
| Words | 202 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 32 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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How the wrong relationship feels when you are dumped
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