Analysis of i carry your heart with me

Edward Estlin Cummings 1894 (Cambridge, Massachusetts) – 1962 (Madison, New Hampshire)



i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
                                  i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

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Poetic Form
Metre 1101111 110111111010 11111001110 11111101011 11011110110 11 11111111111 111100111111 01111001111 0100111111 110101011 1101101001101 0011011011111 1011111111 0110101100101 110111101011 11001011110100100
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 783
Words 160
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 9, 5, 1, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Modified on April 24, 2023

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Edward Estlin Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry. Much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and uses lower case spellings for poetic expression. more…

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