Analysis of Betrayal



Confused my head started malfunctioning
My child I thought you were carrying
In all your disappointments I stood by you
In times of need I saw the best of you
Yet in my time of need the worse you became
With you, our meeting was only within financial gain
How am I going to live to face tomorrow?
You have become the one that doesn't even want to see me
Why my friend why I ask?
How my friend how?
It is an act of betrayal that leads me to all these questions

I had thoughts about us
I thought I had a friend indeed
In you I confided since I was a friend in need
I thought you had a vision that I believed in
I believed you had the best for the future for us
Perhaps we were going to sing in front of a crowd
The crowds you never had in mind it was just my dream
I had ideas I believed were ours, yet there were some you believed in
I thought you supported me as a friend
Yet you connived with others for my persecution
I stand here in loneliness all because of your selfishness
I stand here in regret with my heart,
Just like every man my heart saying had I known,
Had I known, I would have not trusted you
My friend, you have turned my enemy

Your selfishness an act of betrayal


Scheme AABBXXXCXXX DEEFDXXFXXDXXBC X
Poetic Form
Metre 0111100100 111110100 01100101111 0111110111 10111101101 111010110010101 11110111101 110101110101111 111111 1111 1111101011111110 111011 11110101 0110101110101 111101011010 1011101101011 0110101101101 0111010111111 1101010101011011010 1110101101 11111011010 111010010111100 111001111 1110011110111 1111111101 111111100 1100111010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,153
Words 240
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 11, 15, 1
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 310
Words per stanza (avg) 80
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Submitted on September 16, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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