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 |
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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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