Analysis of Only a Heart Could Know
I found my heart in a thousand pieces.
Cold, torn and shattered by
A stone, harder than steel is.
I heard my heart cry,
Why should it ask, why should it try?
When loving hurts me so.
What made love close its eyes and die
Only a heart could know.
Depart I said, for if love chooses
To spread its wings and fly;
Depart, for the door to my heart closes
And I within its walls must lie.
Must I with false love's wish comply?
Can true love ever start to grow?
What was this flame that drew us nigh?
Only a heart could know.
The charm of a love lost still embraces
A heart that has reasoned why.
And though but a kind word eases
The pain that my heart lives by,
No longer plead your love will I,
Nor past emotion show,
Where have tears gone, now eyes are dry?
Only a heart could know.
I watch the melting clouds drift by
And wonder where they go
Was love as empty as the cloudless sky?
Only a heart could know.
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Metre | 1111001010 110101 0110111 11111 11111111 110111 11111101 100111 011111110 111101 0110111110 01011111 11111101 11110111 11111111 100111 0110111010 0111101 01101110 0111111 11011111 110101 11111111 100111 11010111 010111 1111010101 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 877 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on April 23, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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