Analysis of What My Heart Denies
Living without the need
for either love or hate
And immune to the emptiness
of which so many talk
I marvel at the effects
they both instill and extract
As my mind understands in concept,
—what my heart denies
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100101 110111 00110100 111101 1101001 110101 11101010 11101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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