This is an analysis of A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg.

A little breath can make a prayer,
A little wind can take it…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 01011101 0101110 11010101 1111110 11011101 0101110 01010101 1111010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

it

Anaphora

a