Analysis of After Pulling Down And Rebuilding A House
Carolyn Clive 1801 (Brompton Grove, London) – 1873 (Whitfield, Herefordshire)
OLD Ghosts, ye all are dispossess'd,
Your former house is levell'd now;
Another house at my behest
Has lifted over yours, its brow.
But flit, old Ghosts, and live with me;
As yet we are but living hosts;
But watch the new house patiently,
You soon shall have companion Ghosts.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111101 11011101 01011101 11010111 11110111 11111101 11011100 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 284 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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