Analysis of Our House
This is an ancient house
whose walls are chiefly brown.
The building blocks are bones
The windows – the sensory organs
The pipes are the vessels,
The waters being the blood;
The pump house is a marvellous device
That works for decades knowing no rest.
The wiring network is par excellence
No electronics engineer can duplicate it.
The system is always alert
Circadian Rhythms are finely knit.
The drainage is total,
For us, it may all seem casual!
No repair is required
If our stomach is properly cared
A battalion guards the house
No nation has such a vast armed force.
It is very much a silent battle,
We can have peaceful days.
The house is our own,
This is the gift of our parents.
We owe a debt to our ancestors,
We are given the house to live in.
This is a fine construction, with no parallels,
Yet we need to pay rapt attention.
Living in tune with nature, body, and mind,
We can play the finest notes of life.
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Scheme | AXXX XXXX XBXB CCXX AXCX XXXX XXXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 111101 010111 010010010 011010 0101001 01110101 111011011 010111100 101010111001 0101101 0100101101 010110 111111100 1011010 1101011001 0010101 110110111 1110101010 111101 011101 110111010 110111010 111001110 11010101110 111111010 10011101001 111010111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 945 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
This poem relates to the marvelous engineering of the human body. Our body - this form - is the gift of our ancestors. This is a fine construction, with no parallels, Yet we need to pay rapt attention. Living in tune with nature, body, and mind, We can play the finest notes of life.
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