Analysis of Only time



My heart’s in a wheelchair
Get up and walk she said
You may heal the lame lassie and make it rhyme
But a broken heart heals only in its time

My heart’s in a wheelchair
Get up and walk she said
A miracle isn’t what you think it is dear
It’s something you think it isn’t

Was I made to walk on water?
Or this flowery earth, a petal with legs
Miracle, miracle!! Is that what you say?
I’m softly happy breathing lucidity

The miracle, time

I can walk on water you know; all is made of the stuff
Even if it was just an analogical sandbank
Miracle, miracle!! Is that what you cheer?
The blind can see and the deaf can hear

That’s no miracle miss, that’s realisation

My heart’s in a wheelchair
Get up and walk she said
You may heal the lame lady and alliterate rhyme
But can you mend this broken heart of mine?

Only time can do that


Scheme ABcc ABdb xxxx c xxdx e ABce x
Poetic Form
Metre 11001 110111 11101100111 10101110011 11001 110111 01001111111 1101111 11111110 11100101011 10010011111 11010100100 01001 11111011111101 101111111 10010011111 011100111 11100111 11001 110111 1110110011 1111110111 101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 851
Words 163
Sentences 7
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by Rustybuckets on November 01, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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