Analysis of Close to my heart

Royston 1946 (Reading)



Our eyes touch even though we are apart
and I can feel the beating of your heart.
'Though separated by geographic space,
close to my heart you always have a place.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 10111011101 0111010111 110010101 111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 163
Words 31
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted by royston on April 29, 2021

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