Analysis of A House Bought in Fear of His Wife
Steven Bowman 1997 (Voorhees Township, NJ)
It was the nightfall of summer,
A man wanted to buy a house.
Just he knew it is a real comer,
Puts it in his own name Straus.
Mr. Straus wanted it very quick,
He wrote down the rent pricing.
Hope its low, or he won't buy it,
I want it low, it's all to my liking.
He needs this to become his own,
What do I need for an experience?
Just I wanted to call this my home,
For a house, needing a cleanliness.
He's happy to buy his first house,
Just couldn't wait to check inside.
He lives far away from his spouse,
Living here so if he needs to hide.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC XXXX BDBD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101110 01101101 111110110 1101111 101101101 1110110 11111111 1111111110 11110111 1111110100 111011111 101100100 11011111 11011101 11101111 101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
This poem is from 2015.
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Written on 2015
Submitted by stevenbowman319 on May 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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