Analysis of My Heart Bleeds



Just another closeted
  academic

Describing the parts,
  while missing the whole

Your hallways are dark,
  your majesty thin  

My heart bleeds …
  for those minds that you stole

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)


Scheme XX XA XX XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010100 010 01001 11001 1111 11001 111 111111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 211
Words 32
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 04, 2015

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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