This is an analysis of the poem Your Heart Is Fine that begins with:

Your heart is fine feeling the widest
possible empathy for the day and its inhabitants...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab XbcX Xd dcdXX a X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,2,5,1,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 110110010 100100101100100 1110101 001001010 1011111 11101010 0111 010110 10111010 10101 101100 1011 00101 0101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
  • Average number of words per stanza: 12
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; here is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Your Heart Is Fine;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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