Analysis of This Heart that Flutters Near My Heart
James Joyce 1882 (Rathgar) – 1941 (Zürich)
This heart that flutters near my heart
My hope and all my riches is,
Unhappy when we draw apart
And happy between kiss and kiss:
My hope and all my riches -- - yes! -- -
And all my happiness.
For there, as in some mossy nest
The wrens will divers treasures keep,
I laid those treasures I possessed
Ere that mine eyes had learned to weep.
Shall we not be as wise as they
Though love live but a day?
| Scheme | AXAXXX BCBCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111 11011101 01011101 01001101 11011101 011100 1110111 01110101 11110101 11111111 11111111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 405 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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