Analysis of An Angel in the House
James Henry Leigh Hunt 1784 (Southgate, London) – 1859
How sweet it were, if without feeble fright,
Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight,
An angel came to us, and we could bear
To see him issue from the silent air
At evening in our room, and bend on ours
His divine eyes, and bring us from his bowers
News of dear friends, and children who have never
Been dead indeed,--as we shall know forever.
Alas! we think not what we daily see
About our hearths,--angels that are to be,
Or may be if they will, and we prepare
Their souls and ours to meet in happy air;--
A child, a friend, a wife whose soft heart sings
In unison with ours, breeding its future wings.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEBBFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101101 110101011 1101110111 1111010101 110010101110 10110111110 11110101110 11011111010 0111111101 01101101111 1111110101 11010110101 0101011111 0100110101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 613 |
| Words | 122 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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