Analysis of My Home
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
This is the place that I love the best,
A little brown house, like a ground-bird's nest,
Hid among grasses, and vines, and trees,
Summer retreat of the birds and bees.
The tenderest light that ever was seen
Sifts through the vine-made window screen--
Sifts and quivers, and flits and falls
On home-made carpets and gray-hung walls.
All through June the west wind free
The breath of clover brings to me.
All through the languid July day
I catch the scent of new-mown hay.
The morning-glories and scarlet vine
Over the doorway twist and twine;
And every day, when the house is still,
The humming-bird comes to the window-sill.
In the cunningest chamber under the sun
I sink to sleep when the day is done;
And am waked at morn, in my snow-white bed,
By a singing bird on the roof o'erhead.
Better than treasures brought from Rome,
Are the living pictures I see at home--
My aged father, with frosted hair,
And mother's face, like a painting rare.
Far from the city's dust and heat,
I get but sounds and odors sweet.
Who can wonder I love to stay,
Week after week, here hidden away,
In this sly nook that I love the best--
This little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIXA JJKK LLFFAA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 110111101 0101110111 101100101 100110101 01111011 11011101 1010101 111100111 1110111 01110111 1101011 11011111 010100101 1001101 0100110111 0101110101 001101001 111110111 0111101111 101011011 10110111 1010101111 11101101 010110101 11010101 11110101 11101111 110111001 011111101 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,171 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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