Analysis of I'd like to spend long hours at home
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I'd like to spend long hours at home
With a small child to bother me.
I'd take her out to see the shops
And fuss about my husband's tea.
Instead of this I spend my days
In noisy schoolrooms, harsh and bare.
Unloved am I, since people give
Too many children to my care.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111011 10111101 11011101 01011101 01111111 0101101 01111101 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 276 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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