Broken Heart
Sweet as honey
Loves so carelessly
Are you a curse ?
For making my heart burst.
It’s painful, I guess?
You’re just a guess
Now feeling in vain
Trying to get the pain.
Broken Heart
xSweet as/ xhoney
xLoves so/ xcareless/xly
xAre you/ xacurse ?
xFor ma/xkingmy/ xheart burst. xIt’spain/xful, I/ xguess? xYou’rejust/ xa guess xNowfee/xling in/ xvain xTrying/ xto get/ xthepain.
The rhyming scheme in the poem per line in the first and second stanzas are a, a, b, b.
First stanza : Second stanza :
Honey a e guess a E
carelessly a e guest a E
curse b u vain b e
burst b u pain b e
How many syllables are there in each line ?
Sweet as honey 4 - quatrain
Loves so carelessly 5 - cinqain
Are you a curse ? 4 - quatrain
For making my heart burst. 6 - sestet
It’s painful, I guess? 5 - cinqain
You’re just a guess 4 - quatrain
Now feeling in vain 6 - sestet
Trying to get the pain. 6 - sestet
The Nos. of Metrical Foot
xSweet as/ xhoney - two feet
xLoves so/ xcareless/xly - two feet
xAre you/ xacurse ? - two feet
xFor ma/xkingmy/ xheart burst. - three feet xIt’spain/xful, I/ xguess? - three feet xYou’rejust/ xa guess - two feet xNowfee/xling in/ xvain - three feet xTrying/ xto get/ xthepain. - three feet
Analysis of the poem:
The rhythmical pattern of the poem is iamb tetra meter in which there are one weak and one strong. It is a free-verse type of a poem with a rhyming scheme of a, a, b, b each stanza.
The poem is about the broken hearted girl who loved truly to a man who just treated her like a toy, remember that saying “Sa una lang masaya.” but in the end it will lead to bitterness. On the second stanza, the girl is trying to get over to the man and move on.
It is my first time to see a poem here with explanation. Superb!!!! Thank you for sharing this.
thank you for the compliment :)