Analysis of Verse My Heart
My prose becoming painful,
poetry yet a joy
Explaining has deterred me,
rhyme a favorite toy
Sentences locked and muted,
as couplets run and play
New paragraphs unwritten
—as verse my heart does pray
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA BA XC XC B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 100101 0101011 101001 1001010 11101 110010 111111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 11, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 12, 2020
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