Analysis of On The Porch
Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)
As I lie roofed in, screened in,
From the pattering rain,
The summer rain—
As I lie
Snug and dry,
And hear the birds complain:
Oh, billow on billow,
Oh, roar on roar,
Over me wash
The seas of war.
Over me—down—down—
Lunges and plunges
The huge gun with its one blind eye,
The armored train,
And, swooping out of the sky,
The aeroplane.
Down—down—
The army proudly swinging
Under gay flags,
The glorious dead heaped up like rags,
A church with bronze bells ringing,
A city all towers,
Gardens of lovers and flowers,
The round world swinging
In the light of the sun:
All broken, undone,
All down—under
Black surges of thunder …
Oh, billow on billow
Oh, roar on roar,
Over me wash
The seas of war …
As I lie roofed in, screened in,
From the pattering rain,
The summer rain—
As I lie
Snug and dry,
And hear the birds complain.
Scheme | ABBCCB DEFEgxcbcaghiihjjhkkll DEFE ABBCCB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 1011 0101 111 101 010101 110110 1111 1011 0111 10111 10010 01111111 0101 0101101 01 11 0101010 1011 010011111 0111110 010110 10110010 01110 001101 11001 1110 110110 110110 1111 1011 0111 1111010 1011 0101 111 101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 22, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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