Analysis of heart of glass



my heart was made of glass

and you fucked around like a little kid and broke it,

you left me to fix it

but when I tried to pick it up

it cut my finger,

so I let it just sit on the floor

because no one bothers to pick it up


Scheme X A A B X X B
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 0110110101011 111111 11111111 11110 111111101 0111101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 229
Words 60
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by jaxonhurst on December 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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