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
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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