Analysis of My Heart is Lame

Charlotte Mary Mew 1869 (Bloomsbury, London) – 1928 (London)



My heart is lame with running after yours so fast
Such a long way,
Shall we walk slowly home, looking at all the things we passed
Perhaps to-day?

Home down the quiet evening roads under the quiet skies,
Not saying much,
You for a moment giving me your eyes
When you could bear my touch.

But not to-morrow. This has taken all my breath;
Then, though you look the same,
There may be something lovelier in Love's face in death
As your heart sees it, running back the way we came;
My heart is lame.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 111111010111 1011 11110110110111 0111 11010101100101 1101 1101010111 111111 111101110111 111101 11110101101 111111010111 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 492
Words 97
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 01, 2023

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Charlotte Mary Mew

Charlotte Mary Mew was an English poet whose work spans the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism.  more…

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