Analysis of The Broken Heart

William Barnes 1801 (Bagber) – 1886



News o' grief had overteaken
Dark-eyed Fanny, now vorseaken;
There she zot, wi' breast a-heaven,
While vrom zide to zide, wi' grieven,
Vell her head, wi' tears a-creepen
Down her cheaks, in bitter weepen.
There wer still the ribbon-bow
She tied avore her hour ov woe,
An' there wer still the hans that tied it
Hangen white,
Or wringen tight,
In ceare that drowned all ceare bezide it.

When a man, wi' heartless slighten,
Mid become a maiden's blighten,
He mid cearelessly vorseake her,
But must answer to her Meaker;
He mid slight, wi' selfish blindness,
All her deeds o' loven-kindness,
God wull waigh 'em wi' the slighten
That mid be her love's requiten;
He do look on each deceiver,
He do know
What weight o' woe
Do break the heart ov ev'ry griever.


Scheme AAAAAAXBCDDC AAEEFFAAEABE
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 111011 11111010 1111111 1011101 1010101 1110101 11101011 111101111 101 111 01111111 1011101 101011 11110 11101010 11111010 10111010 1111101 111011 111111 111 1111 11011110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 737
Words 136
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 12
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 288
Words per stanza (avg) 67
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Barnes

William Barnes, Barne, Barneis or Berners, of Thoby, Essex, was an English politician. more…

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