Analysis of Heart-Breaker
I used to think that
there were these little bones in my heart, and
when they got broken, the doctors would put
a bright pink cast on my heart.
But it doesn't work like that.
You can't put a cast on your heart, and even if you could,
there isn't a cast big enough to hold every single piece
my heart has broken into.
There isn't a glue strong enough to put it back
together, and keep you from breaking
it, yet again.
So next time you adorn yourself with such a label as,
"Heart-breaker," perhaps you should imagine
what it would be like when he breaks your heart.
The most exquisite truth of all is this:
I may be broken.
I am not
d e s t r o y e d.
Scheme | AXXB A XXXXXX XCB XCXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 1011010110 1111001011 0111111 1110111 11101111010111 1100110111100101 1111001 110011011111 010011110 1101 11110101110101 1100111010 1111111111 0110011111 11110 111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 6, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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