Analysis of The Deepest Cut
Charles Edward York 1966 (Saigon, Vietnam)
The Deepest Cut
The deepest cut comes by the one you love
Betrayal by the false soul
Stabs repeatedly
Killing all hope of trust
Destroying everything good
Once held precious
Every dream and wish is
Disintegrated into oblivion
Deception and malice
Breeds death to forgiveness.
I loved you with all my heart and gratitude
And for my trouble you hit me
Pummeling my open heart
With repeated fury
And without mercy
My weakness is
Your window for hate
Striking your blow
Ending my happiness
With wicked waste.
Your absence of remorse is an empty grave
Where my faith falls dead
There is no redemption
For your kind of corruption
Only threefold payback
You cash in ego and pride
To wear the name victim
Of your own demise
Your fate is sealed
A thousand times forever.
Copyright © 2023 Charles Edward York
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| Scheme | X XXAXXBCDBB XAXAACXXBX XXDDXXXXXE XE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 0101110111 0101011 10100 101111 010101 1110 1001011 0100010100 010010 111010 1111111010 01110111 1001101 101010 00110 1101 11011 1011 101100 1101 11010111101 11111 111010 1111010 1011 1101001 110110 11101 1111 0101010 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,026 |
| Words | 187 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 10, 10, 10, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 33 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
About this poem
Betrayal and heartbreak are the most personal misfortunes to happen. You seldom see it coming.
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