Analysis of The Deserted House

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861 (London) – 1907



There's no smoke in the chimney,
And the rain beats on the floor;
There's no glass in the window,
There's no wood in the door;
The heather grows behind the house,
And the sand lies before.

No hand hath trained the ivy,
The walls are grey and bare;
The boats upon the sea sail by,
Nor ever tarry there.
No beast of the field comes nigh,
Nor any bird of the air


Scheme ABXBXB ACDCDC
Poetic Form
Metre 1110010 0011101 1110010 111001 01010101 001101 1111010 011101 01010111 110101 1110111 1101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 356
Words 74
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews. more…

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