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 |
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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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