Analysis of Heart-Shaped Flowers
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
St. Joan burns with a passion
She's can't wait for the dance
Of the patron saint of epilepsy
The saint of headless romance
She carries on the tradition
Of the Valentine's Day feast
A skull with a crown of flowers
Head cheese for her enemies
Teach the kids to cut hearts out
Raise a glass to St. Valentine
At Basilica Santa Maria
Martyrs blood sparkles like wine
Valentino stares from the laurels
Adorning his blank silly grin
The Valentine's Day Massacre
Is upon us all once again
Scissors and construction paper
Every year at this time
Heart-shaped chocolates and flowers
Will you be my Valentine?
Send out the invitations
To the Valentine's Day Dance
Line us up against the wall
Cut us to pieces, call it romance
Nurse, get your scissors ready
We need to take some blood
It's a Valentine's Day Massacre
How did we come to call this love?
Dinner and a box of chocolates
And diamonds are forever
Cut out my heart and make it yours
We'll always be together
Mail out cards like blood oaths
A promise of eternal good
Atonement in the blood of martyrs
Of unplanned parenthood
Scissors and construction paper
Every year at this time
Heart-shaped chocolates and flowers
Will you be my Valentine?
© John Kennan 2-14-21
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 111101 101011100 0111001 11010010 101011 01101110 1110100 1011111 1011110 1010010010 1011011 01011010 01011101 0101100 10111101 10001010 1001111 1110010 111110 110010 101011 1110101 111101101 1111010 111111 10101100 11111111 10001110 0101010 11110111 111010 111111 01010101 010001110 10110 10001010 1001111 1110010 111110 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,173 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 4, 8, 8, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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