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heartful

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A full heart or a heart full of feeling; here, a figurative use of the word.

Detailed Definition
This is a rare, poetic formation rather than a common everyday noun. Browning uses it to suggest he is planting a heart full of feeling, as if love can grow like a seed.
Example
Example in poetry:
“I plant a heartful now: some seed” uses heartful as a noun meaning as much as the heart can hold; “She gave a heartful of thanks, though words were few” develops its emotional abundance; “A heartful of grief lay under the spoken calm” makes feeling measurable; “He carried home a heartful of sea-light” uses the rare noun in imagistic contemporary lyric
Additional Notes
The word 'heartful' in the quoted line is unusual and poetic, so readers may not know it at once.; Found in the poem, You'll love Me yet by Robert Browning
Also Known As
soulful heartfelt sincere affectionate
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