Analysis of Heartless
Chris Pearson 1977 (Winnipeg)
Soon
This heart will stop
Beating itself up
Tire of pumping blood
It believed life goes on
Fighting the good fight and
Though there be an end
It justified its means to
Be this then
Here and now
But never again
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 1111 10011 101101 101111 100110 11111 110111 111 101 11001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on January 20, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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