Analysis of Home
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
"Where shall we dwell?" say you.
Wandering winds reply:
"In a temple with roof of blue
-- Under the splendid sky."
Never a nobler home
We'll find though an age we try
Than is arched by the azure dome
Of the all-enfolding sky.
Here we are wed, and here
We live under God's own eye.
"Where shall we dwell," my dear?
Under the splendid sky.
| Scheme | abaB cbcb xbxB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111111 100101 00101111 100101 100101 1111111 11110101 10111 111101 1110111 111111 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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