Analysis of I Gave My Heart To A Woman
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
I gave my heart to a woman –
I gave it her, branch and root.
She bruised, she wrung, she tortured,
She cast it under foot.
Under her feet she cast it,
She trampled it where it fell,
She broke it all to pieces,
And each was a clot of hell.
There in the rain and the sunshine
They lay and smouldered long;
And each, when again she viewed them,
Had turned to a living song.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111010 1110101 1111110 111101 1001111 1101111 1111110 0110111 1001001 11011 01101111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 369 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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