Analysis of A Careless Heart
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
A little breath can make a prayer,
A little wind can take it
And turn it back again to air:
Then say, why should you make it ?
An ardent thought can make a word,
A little ear can hear it,
A careless heart forget it heard :
Then why keep ever near it ?
| Scheme | ABAB CBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01011101 0101111 01110111 1111111 11011101 0101111 01010111 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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