Analysis of Our Little House
Thomas Walsh 1875 (Brooklyn, New York) – 1928 (Brooklyn, New York)
Our little house upon the hill
In winter time is strangely still;
The roof tree, bare of leaves, stands high,
A candelabrum for the sky,
And down below the lamplights glow,
And ours makes answer o'er the snow.
Our little house upon the hill
In summer time strange voices fill;
With ceaseless rustle of the leaves,
And birds that twitter in the eaves,
And all the vines entangled so
The village lights no longer show.
Our little house upon the hill
Is just the house of Jack and Jill,
And whether showing or unseen,
Hid behind its leafy screen;
There's a star that points it out
When the lamp lights are in doubt.
Scheme | Aabbcc Aaddcc Aaeeff |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010101 01011101 01111111 01101 0101011 0101101001 101010101 01011101 11010101 01110001 01010101 01011101 101010101 11011101 01010101 1011101 1011111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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