Analysis of Heart Of Life



I walked the streets at night,
Through the neon glow and cigarette smoke,
Lost in the cacophony of voices,
The beat of the city pulsing in my veins.

I saw the faces of the forgotten,
The invisible ones, the outcasts,
The lost souls wandering alone,
Searching for something they couldn't name.

The city was alive with energy,
A living, breathing organism,
Full of contradictions and complexity,
A microcosm of humanity.

There, the young dream and the old remembered,
The rich flaunted their wealth,
While the poor struggled to survive,
And the artists created their masterpieces.

The city was a jungle, a maze,
A place of both beauty and ugliness,
But in its chaos, there was a strange kind of order,
A rhythm that beat to the heart of life.

This is the city I used to call my home,
A place that both embraced and challenged me,
A place that has shaped me and made me who I am,
A place where anything was possible.  


Scheme XXAX XXXX BXBB XXXA XXXX XBXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 101010011 1000100110 01101010011 1101010010 00100101 01110001 101101101 0101011100 01010100 1101000100 010010100 1011001010 011011 10110101 00100101100 010101001 0111100100 1011011011110 0101110111 11010111111 0111010101 011111011111 011101100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 922
Words 194
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on June 14, 2023

Submitted by JoeStrickland on June 14, 2023

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Joe Strickland

I'm just a regular, blue collar, working stiff who took an interest in writing poetry many years ago but until recently I haven't had a desire to share any with anyone or pursue publication. I'm an unpublished fork lift operator by night, and a day drinker by choice. I can be followed on Twitter @JoeStricklandSC more…

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