Analysis of Only Heartache
She is gone…
swiftly, silently,
like the fading light
Settling into
my memory
like a thousand yesterdays
Taking what I
would never give,
leaving only heartache
Crossing love’s
forbidden line
—never to return
(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)
Scheme | XAX XAX XXX XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 10100 10101 10001 1100 101010 1011 1101 10101 101 1001 10101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 243 |
Words | 43 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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