Analysis of The House and the Road
Josephine Preston Peabody 1874 (New York City) – 1922
The little Road says, Go,
The little House says, Stay:
And O, it's bonny here at home,
But I must go away.
The little Road, like me,
Would seek and turn and know;
And forth I must, to learn the things
The little Road would show!
And go I must, my dears,
And journey while I may,
Though heart be sore for the little House
That had no word but Stay.
Maybe, no other way
Your child could ever know
Why a little House would have you stay,
When a little Road says, Go.
Scheme | ABXB XACA CBXB BABA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010111 010111 01110111 111101 010111 110101 01111101 010111 011111 010111 111110101 111111 101101 111101 101011111 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 471 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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