Analysis of No Visible Scars
"I got it when I was two," he says
as I trace back time through a line on his chest.
Thinking about
a heart removed,
replaced,
then gone again.
Silently touching his past,
I feel a strange
pang of jealousy.
My heart,
still pounding beneath my breast,
broken so many times,
has no visible scars.
| Scheme | XAXXXX XXX XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111111 11111101111 1001 0101 1 1101 1001011 1101 11100 11 1100111 101101 111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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