Analysis of Cry of the Heart



Time flows
Into Eternity
And the Earth cries
At what is laid upon it
Helpless


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tanka  (60%)
Cinquain  (60%)
Lanturne  (60%)
Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 11 010100 0011 1111011 10
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 77
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 15

About this poem

The actual title of this piece is “Cri de Couer” It’s self-explanatory

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Written on May 23, 2021

Submitted by meganl.48371 on October 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Megan Lindberg

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