Analysis of My Heart – Part 1
My heart was full of love,
And then with sadness,
And that is why I chose to live
With all my madness.
I am trying my best to explain
It all to my heart;
What can you have from me?
Just my sad part.
Oh, my God, don’t ask me
To list all my gains;
All I have to show is just
A broken heart for my pains.
How can I destroy myself
And cause them no grief?
Lead me to death and everlasting sleep
In your warm relief.
The heart of a human
Is like living flesh
With no bone;
Please explain how some people
Can be as hard as any stone.
How can I kill my own heart
And yet still carry on living?
Why can’t I live like people
With no depth of feeling?
Scheme | XAXA XBCB CDXD XEXE XXFGF BHGH |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
Metre | 111111 01110 01111111 11110 111011101 11111 111111 1111 111111 11111 1111111 0101111 111011 01111 111100101 01101 011010 11101 111 1011110 11111101 1111111 01110110 1111110 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
The boneless tissues of the heart perform the mechanical work of pumpingblood and transmitting emotions and sense to the human body. It remainshumane as long as the soul maintains some contact with the heart. If thesoul remains unconnected the heart is subjected to tempering through evil.Such a heart damages humanity as any stone can break a glass mirror.
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