A Careless Heart

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



A little breath can make a prayer,
A little wind can take it
And turn it back again to air:
Then say, why should you make it ?

An ardent thought can make a word,
A little ear can hear it,
A careless heart forget it heard :
Then why keep ever near it ?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CBCB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 252
Words 54
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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