Analysis of Heirloom
You've held my heart in your hands
Many times
And yet you've never known it
You treat a person's heart
Better than an heirloom
Not handle with care
But stroke gently with caring
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 101 0111011 110101 10111 11011 1110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
This is about the 1st soul mate in my life. But I was already married at the time.. And so could not cross the line...
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