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Broken Heart
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Broken Heart
My broken heart,
My broken self
Broken bones can mend,
My broken heart will not
Broken words can
Mend a person’s broken heart
Broken bones can mend,
My broken soul cannot
Your empty words cannot mend
A person’s broken soul
Broken bones will mend,
My broken soul cannot.
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Do not worry, i do not intend on commiting suicide
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Ok, so I just took the poem and first scanned the lines for meter. Then I went through and colored the words "broken," "heart," "bones," "mend," and "soul." Here's what the poem looks like now (pretty, ne?)
Broken
Heart
My
broken
heart
,
(iambic dimeter)
My
broken
self
(iambic dimeter)
Broken
bones
can
mend
,
(trochaic dimeter + stressed syllable)
My
broken
heart
will not
(iambic trimeter)
Broken
words can
(trochaic dimeter)
Mend
a person’s
broken
heart
(trochaic trimeter + stressed syllable)
Broken
bones
can
mend
,
(trochaic dimeter + stressed syllable)
My
broken
soul
cannot
(iambic trimeter)
Your empty words cannot
mend
(iambic trimeter + stressed syllable)
A person’s
broken
soul
(iambic trimeter)
Broken
bones
will
mend
,
(trochaic dimeter + stressed syllable)
My
broken
soul
cannot.
(iambic trimeter)
The meter's pretty uneven, as you can see, which is perfectly OK. Adding meter will merely give a poem more musicality, but it's necessary for a "good poem" (I hate that term). Couplets tend to assume either meter, rhyme, or both, though--hence forms like the Heroic Couplet.
You use a lot of repetition in this poem, which again, is fine, though it tends to be more appealing if there's some structure to it. Though the meter is weak, you still achieve sme rhythm through the repetition--but it's very erratic, which makes the rhythm very weak, and can lead to musical misunderstanding or a feeling of incoherence. I'm about to go on and quote Meyer's Law of Weakening Shape, but I won't unless you want more clarification.
My suggestion is to see if you can't organize your repetition to cause a more harmonious, coherent feel to the poem. You may end up finding that perhaps you don't need to repeat some of the words as much as you have thus far--which is great. Though the repetition of "broken" seems to loosely hold the poem together, it's reiteration causes "saturation"-- a desire for change due to a feeling of dissonance.
All just suggestions. I've studied poetry (especially Renaissance poetry [you could say we're in the Santharian Renaissance right now]) for several years now, so I have a lot of this stuff stuck in my brain.
Good luck!
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