This is an analysis of the poem A Poor&Mdash;Torn Heart&Mdash;A Tattered Heart that begins with:
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A poor—torn heart—a tattered heart—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXaXXXbb aXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01001001010 1101010 11010101 1100010 110101100 1101010 0101010 010101 010000011 0101100 10010101 1100010 10000101000 10000000100 10110101 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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