Analysis of Mended Lines
Jerry Cassidy 1969 (NJ)
Are you ready?
Do you feel it?
Those mended lines in your broken heart
Becoming whole and one
Pressed together with love
I am going to love you
As a woman is to be loved
I will press those broken pieces back together
Slowly, carefully, respectfully
Showing caution for what they have been through
Taking time to move each piece
Until the heart is one – whole and beating fierce
The warmth will spread
Slowly, uncertainly, snail-like
Until it begins to fill your form
Invading your conscious mind
Until you are fully aware
Are you ready?
To be loved?
| Scheme | A x xxxbc xabxx xxxxx A c |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 1111 110101101 010101 101011 1110111 10101111 111110101010 101000100 1010111111 1011111 01011110101 0111 10010011 011011111 0101101 01111001 1110 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 558 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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broken hearts made whole
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