Analysis of The Deserted House
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Life and Thought have gone away
Side by side,
Leaving door and windows wide.
Careless tenants they!
All within is dark as night:
In the windows is no light;
And no murmur at the door,
So frequent on its hinge before.
Close the door; the shutters close;
Or through the windows we shall see
The nakedness and vacancy
Of the dark deserted house.
Come away: no more of mirth
Is here or merry-making sound.
The house was builded of the earth,
And shall fall again to ground.
Come away: for Life and Thought
Here no longer dwell;
But in a city glorious -
A great and distant city -have bought
A mansion incorruptible.
Would they could have stayed with us!
Scheme | ABBA CCDD XEEX FGFG XHIXHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 111 1010101 10101 1011111 0010111 0110101 11011101 1010101 11010111 010100 1010101 1011111 11110101 0111101 0110111 1011101 11101 10010100 010101011 0101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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