Analysis of Human Hearts to Align
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
It takes two hands
to make a whole.
Yours grasping mine
to achieve the goal.
Human hearts to align.
| Scheme | ABCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Lanturne (40%) |
| Metre | 1111 1101 1101 10101 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 95 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Invited to participate in a world friendship club, I was asked to write something parsimoniously expressed. This poem, “It Takes Two Hands,” was my spontaneous response.
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Written on October 17, 2021
Submitted by karlcfolkes on October 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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