Analysis of My Heart
My heart is a four chambered pump
whose vascular connections
like roots and branches
of a pulsing tree
feed all
the living parts of me.
| Scheme | ABCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101101 1100010 11010 10101 11 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 136 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I have always been troubled by the poetic ‘heart’. I wonder if I have one? I will consult with my vascular surgeon. Christina Georgina Rossetti, my first poetic love would have explained. “My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. ” more »
Written on June 20, 2022
Submitted by johnp.68344 on August 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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