Analysis of Fickle Is The Heart



Impulsive and quixotic. Alluring and hypnotic.
Indulgent and erotic. Fickle is the heart.

Colorful and chromatic. Passionate and fanatic.
Vivacious and ecstatic. Fickle is the heart.

Obsessive and neurotic. Insistent and despotic.
Dithery and chaotic. Fickle is the heart.

Vigorous and dynamic. Volatile and volcanic.
Colossal and titanic. Fickle is the heart.

Deviant and dichotic. Tedious and robotic.
Peculiar and exotic. Fickle is the heart.

Capricious and erratic. Unstable and nomadic.
Affected and dramatic. Fickle is the heart.


Scheme AB AB AB AB AB AB
Poetic Form
Metre 01000100100010 010001010101 100011000010 010001010101 01000100100010 1001010101 10000101000010 010001010101 10001100010 010001010101 01000100100010 010001010101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 524
Words 78
Sentences 25
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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