Analysis of Tears Flow.
Inside my sleeve, I pull out my heart,
handing it to you, "careful it's fragile,
and easily falls apart."
Extending your arms, you take the heart in
your tender warm hands.
It falls into a million shattered pieces - on
the floor it lands.
You begin to bend down to pick it up, sorrow and
sadness in your eyes.
Apologies are not enough.
Looking at you with tears in my eyes,
I ask you not to pick up the pieces of a heart
that has fallen apart.
I am the one who needs to pick up the pieces of
my shattered heart - one by one, piece by piece.
I need to put it together again, some how. some way.
Each piece of my heart has a memory so true.
Each piece of my heart has part of you.
You are the one who is leaving to start a new lease on life.
I'll just be here on my knees picking up the pieces of a
heart that feels like it's being pierced with a knife.
All my tears won't keep you near
All my tears won't mend what's not here.
Again I look at you with a whisper in my voice,
The only way my heart will mend and finally be complete,
is if you and I can come together without being discreet.
You see, what we have here and today, helps me face the
world, with a love for you that gives a glow -
but now, my darling, you made a choice.
My heart is on this floor, shattered and broke.
With each piece I pick up -
I need to learn to let go.
Scheme | AXA XBXB XC X CAA XX X DD EFE XX GHHFIG XXI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111111 1011110110 0100101 0101111010 11011 110101010101 0111 1011111111100 10011 01001101 101111011 1111111010101 111001 1101111110101 1101111111 11111010011111 111111010011 111111111 110111101101111 111111110101010 11111101101 1111111 11111111 0111111010011 010111110100101 1110111010011001 1111110011110 1101111101 111101101 1111111001 111111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,303 |
Words | 279 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 6, 3 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on July 23, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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