Analysis of The False Heart
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied:
'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!' But it lied.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1111111101 110110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 97 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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