Analysis of Betrayal

Brad Van Conant II 1974 (Croswell)



The knife in my back was worth
two through my heart.
And to think that I vowed,  
“’Till Death Do Us Part!”
Never again will I trust like I did,
and be forced to let go of the
“one” life within.

I thought that I’d found a
soulmate for life, yet all that
it was, was a fistful of strife.
Looking back now is like
night unto day, just pages
ripped out of my book
along the way.

I’ll try to let go of this pain
in my side, and run to a place
deep within where I’ll hide.


Scheme XAXAXBX BXXXXXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101111 1111 011111 11111 1001111111 01111110 1101 111110 111111 11101011 101111 1101110 11111 0101 11111111 01101101 101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 491
Words 114
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 3
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Written on 2004

Submitted by Brad_II on December 05, 2022

Modified on March 15, 2023

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