Analysis of Broken Hearts



A heart is not a play thing
a heart is not a toy,
but if you want it broken
just give it to a boy

You wonder where he is at night
you wonder if he´s true,
one moment you´ll be happy
the next you will be blue

And when it starts to happen
you worry day and night,
you see my friend in loving you
it never turns out right

Love is fun but hurts so much
the price you pay is high,
if I could choose between life & death
I think I´d rather die

My heart is yours forever
I hope you understand,
cuz I thought that when I gave my heart
I gave it to a man

So when I say don´t fall in love
you´ll hurt before you´re through,
you see my friend I ought to know
cuz I fell in love with you


Scheme XABA CDXD BCDC XEXE XXXX XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 0111011 011101 1111110 111101 11011111 1101111 11011110 011111 0111110 110101 11110101 110111 1111111 011111 11110111 1111101 1111010 11101 111111111 111101 111111101 11101111 11111111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 686
Words 160
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

It is about a girlfriend who broke up with me and some of this poem are the words she used.

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Written on 1988

Submitted by bblocksped on February 16, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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