Analysis of December Hearts
We're both standing on the front porch
Our hearts suspended above us
Like a strand of Christmas lights
The rising sun knots its rays
Throughout brunette hair
And warms the hands that have lain so perfectly still
Would you hold mine?
I tremble silently beneath my skin
Praying he never hears my racing heart
Cursing December for being so cold
The shivers loud as crashing waves
My eyes wander to their corners, again
For they refuse to look at the beauty of Winter
When something.. someone.. so much more
Beautiful, is standing so close
Oh, he's closer than the snowfall
Yet he feels farther than the Spring
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101011 101010011 1011101 0101111 01011 010111111001 1111 1101000111 1011011101 1001011011 01011101 1110111001 1101111010110 1101111 10011011 11101010 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 590 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 490 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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