Analysis of Coming Home

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner 1885 (Niles, Michigan) – 1933 (East Hampton, New York)



Prepare for noise, you quiet walls!
You floors, get set for heavy falls!
Frail dishes, hide away!
Get ready for some scratches, stairs!
Clean table linen, say your prayers!
The kid comes home today!

For three long weeks you've been, O House,
As noiseless as the well-known mouse,
As silent as the tomb.
And you've stayed neat, with none on hand
To track your floors with mud and sand,
To muss your ev'ry room.

The ideal place for work you've been,
But soon a Bedlam once again,
A mess, a wreck. But say,
I wonder will it make us mad.
No, House, I'll bet we both are glad
The kid comes home today.


Scheme aabccB ddeffe xxbggB
Poetic Form
Metre 01111101 11111101 110101 11011101 11010111 011101 11111111 1110111 110101 01111111 11111101 11111 00111111 11010101 010111 11011111 11111111 011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 585
Words 115
Sentences 11
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner (March 5, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing.  more…

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