Analysis of On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Ill-fated Heart! And can it be,
That thou should'st thus be rent in vain?
Have years of care for thine and thee
Alike been all employ'd in vain?
Yet precious seems each shatter'd part
And every fragment dearer grown
Since he who wears thee feels thou art
A fitter emblem of his own.
March 16, 1812
Scheme | ABAB CDCD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 111111101 11111101 01110101 11011101 010010101 11111111 01010111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 297 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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