Analysis of Writ In A Book Of Welsh Verse



This is the house where I was bred:
The wind blows through it without stint,
The wind bitten by the roadside mint;
Here brake I loaf, here climbed to bed.

The fuchsia on the window sill;
Even the candlesticks a-row,
Wrought by grave men so long ago —
I loved them once, I love them still.

Southward and westward a great sky! —
The throb of sea within mine ear —
Then something different, more near,
As though a wistful foot went by.

Ghost of a ghost down all the years! —
In low-roofed room, at turn of stair,
At table-setting, and at prayer,
Old wars, old hungers, and old tears!


Scheme ABBA CDDC EXXE XFFX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 11011111 01111011 01101011 11111111 0110101 1001001 11111101 11111111 10010011 01110111 11010011 11010111 11011101 01111111 11010011 1111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 581
Words 113
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Lizette Woodworth Reese

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