Analysis of House or Home?



You've got a mansion of gold on the hill,
but is it a home
when you live in constant fear for your life,
never wanting to be left alone?

When you go to bed and sleep won't come
- under your pillow, a gun,
startled by the sound of the wind in the trees,
wondering when will the thieves come.

You've got a mansion of gold on the hill,
six cars parked in your yard;
What good are riches, diamonds, and gold
If having it leaves you feeling sad?

What good is a bank account that can buy the bank
if it causes a threat on your life?
Better be poor and just get by
than to be wealthy and not have a life.


Scheme Axbx cxxc Axxx xbxb
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 1101011101 11101 1110101111 101011101 111110111 1011001 10101101001 10011011 1101011101 111011 111101001 110111101 111010111101 111001111 10110111 1111001101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 582
Words 124
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on June 02, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jervis Dabreo

Jervis A. Dabreo (1979 - ) is a Grenadian author, blogger and high school teacher with a love for poetry and information technology. As of March 2013, he has published four (4) anthologies: Being Me (2000), In Times Like These (2001), Life Lessons (2013)and The Lord Is My Shepherd (2013) - which made it to the #1 spot of FREE anthologies on Amazon.com in just two days. Jervis currently lives in Grenada with his wife Anna and their two lovely daughters, Aimee and Jada.His blog is found at www.jervisdabreo.com/thetechcorner more…

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