Joyas Volardoras, written by Brian Doyle, explains how every heartbeat throughout a person’s lifetime should be valued and not taken for granted. Doyle frequently uses punctuation that mimics the human heart to explain how the heart beats and to show the importance of each beat. Doyle’s opening two paragraphs contain excessive amounts of commons, which occur every few words. “But when they rest they come to death on frigid nights, or when they are starving, they retreat into torpor, their metabolic rate slowing…” (Doyle 104). The commons imitate the beating of a heart, occurring on average once a second, or as in Doyle’s case, once every few words. However, his later paragraphs contain long run on sentences, almost as if the rapid heart beating
