This is an analysis of My Heart by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau.

Sleepless night, the rushing rain,
While my heart with ceaseless pain…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aabb ccXc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1010101 1110101 10101010 100101010 11101010 11111010 10101010 10101010 1011101 0011111 11110101 1010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12