Analysis of Lonely House



The house whispers in the night
sharing stories of when you lived here
Nothing ever feels quite right
There’s no cigars or beers
Gentle arms cant hold me tight
      Every day, I cry

Screech owls caw in the moon’s glow
Limbs rake across the glass
I dream of your breath, soft and low
while the hours move slowly passed
And I reach for your old pillow
      But you’ll never know

I dream - oh i dream of you
Your tender essence flows back
And your lips, how they soothed
when my nightmares attacked
Now the whole world is blue
      In my solitude

I draw your face into the ceiling
with eyes of artistic schenes
And paint you with ivory wings
wishing you’d fly back to me
You can’t leave me in a dream
       Its mine to dream

In the morning; comes honey bees
where milk thistle trims the meadow
A hint of cologne swims in the breeze
Your voice; a mystic chello
I know you’ll never set me free
      My heart silently bellows

The sun moves behind the clouds
as you draw back into these walls
Tonight the memories will sing aloud
screaming as twilight falls
If I were you, I’d be so proud
      I'm trapped in your walls


Scheme AXABAX CXCXCC DXXXDX XBXEFF GCGCEX XHIHIH
Poetic Form
Metre 0110001 101011111 1010111 110111 1011111 100111 1110011 110101 11111101 10101101 01111110 11101 1111111 1101011 011111 11101 101111 0110 111101010 1110101 01111001 1011111 1111001 1111 00101101 1110101 011011001 110101 11110111 1110010 0110101 11110111 0101001101 10111 11011111 11011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,138
Words 215
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 35

About this poem

Lonely House is a reflective hybrid, with an ABAB, AA rhyme. The poem expresses the sorrow fely by lost love.

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Written on March 26, 2024

Submitted by Authorfrea on March 28, 2024

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Frea wooten

Frea wooten is a poet residing in Sw Virginia. The Appallachian mountain environment inspires her. Recent work can be found at the ilanot review and in a recent poets choice anthology. more…

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