Analysis of My Heart



Take this tattered heart
And hold it steady now.
Take it away from me.
Lock it tight inside a room
I cannot reach.
It's my heart, you see.
The rhythm it beats is
Quite unknown to me.
My heart;
It's become a fragile little thing.
I took too many steps
And now it's been nothing
But an uncharted destination.
Have you locked this heart away?
I can still feel it close to me.
Too close it seems.
Did you put it back?
The rhythm is pulsing in my ear.
Louder and louder.
Did it skip just now?
Take this stupid heart of mine.
Rip it out of its seams,
For I no longer care.
Take it away from me.
My heart,
Did you dispose of it?
Give it back to me,
I cannot breathe....


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Poetic Form
Metre 11101 011101 110111 1110101 1101 11111 010111 10111 11 101010101 111101 011110 11010010 1111101 11111111 1111 11111 010110011 10010 11111 1110111 111111 111101 110111 11 110111 11111 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 662
Words 156
Sentences 19
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 499
Words per stanza (avg) 134
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Written on January 02, 2022

Submitted by Arx7Echo on January 02, 2022

Modified on March 17, 2023

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