Analysis of The Apartment House
Joyce Kilmer 1886 (New Brunswick) – 1918 (Seringes-et-Nesles)
Severe against the pleasant arc of sky
The great stone box is cruelly displayed.
The street becomes more dreary from its shade,
And vagrant breezes touch its walls and die.
Here sullen convicts in their chains might lie,
Or slaves toil dumbly at some dreary trade.
How worse than folly is their labor made
Who cleft the rocks that this might rise on high!
Yet, as I look, I see a woman's face
Gleam from a window far above the street.
This is a house of homes, a sacred place,
By human passion made divinely sweet.
How all the building thrills with sudden grace
Beneath the magic of Love's golden feet!
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCDCD |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 0101010111 011111001 0101110111 0101011101 1101001111 111111101 1111011101 1101111111 1111110101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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