Analysis of A Broken Heart
Christopher Barnes 1949 (United States)
A broken bone will readily mend,
also, an arm, a leg, a hand.
But a broken heart, when love departs
both grief and heartache will contend,
To see which will control the soul
and on to hell will send.
For neither will consent to give
permission to heal the rend.
| Scheme | ABCADAEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111001 10110101 101011101 1101101 11110101 011111 11010111 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 419 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
About this poem
There is nothing worse than losing the one you love.
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