Analysis of New Heartbeats
To die without rhythm
and bleed without rhyme
Each wish left unspoken
in coupling divine
New heartbeats unwritten
that call from within
Their cadence restructured
all verse—now a hymn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016 )
Scheme | XX AX AX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 01011 111010 01001 11010 11101 110010 11101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 222 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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