Analysis of Heartfelt
I have never lost a child but I often wonder how anybody copes who has.
This statue is a representation of how it must feel to be a bereaved parent.
The words are how I can only imagine how it would feel.
I woke up from my sleep this morning
Which I did not want to do.
My days are nothing but nightmares now
And I don't want to make it through.
I make myself a coffee
As I look out to the sky
The cup now fills with tears
The coffee cup never runs dry.
I go back in my mind
And relive the times we shared.
I try to fill this empty hole
By grasping memories spared.
The hole can not be filled though,
And I don't know how to live.
Tomorrow shall be the same,
As I have nothing more to give.
I search everywhere for answers
Knowing there's none to find,
I long to close my eyes again
To put darkness to my mind.
I walk the streets of ignorance
My loss is their unknown.
I look upon all the children
As I cry for the loss of my own.
I have to go on living though,
With this great big empty space
It represents my love for you
As my heart it does replace.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010111101011000111 11100010111111100110 011111100101111 111111110 1111111 11110111 01111111 111010 1111101 011111 01011011 111011 0010111 11111101 1101001 0111111 0111111 011101 11110111 1110110 101111 11111101 1110111 11011100 111101 11011010 111101111 11111101 1111101 1011111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,023 |
Words | 219 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 31 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 813 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 219 |
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