Lonely Heart–Pattern

  “I guess it's me… I just don't understand you told me you love me and held my hand.”

  Pattern is used in this poem to make the thoughts of the speaker seem more romantic. The pattern and rhyme scheme make this poem feel like a love poem when really the speaker is saying that she doesn't have a heart. The speaker is nostalgic over her lost love. She's being overdramatic by saying that the void left by her former love is so great that she no longer has a heart.  But by saying that she no longer has a heart she is effectively portraying the feelings of emptiness that she feels without him. And, she's hoping that he will come back to her and bring with him her heart. But, the tone of this poem says that she might be being too overdramatic. The seriousness of the tone doesn't really meet with diction. For instance, he only “held her hands”. This Makes it seem as though  this was simply an elementary crush. The rhyme scheme all so kind of gives this an elementary (as well as serious) tone because it's very simple.