Analysis of To Your Little House



I shall remember candlelight
 And the low fire burning
When the only sound was a quiet word
 Or a page turning.

I shall remember the song of the wind
 And the bias drive of the rain
When cold days and dark days
 Beat at the windowpane.

Morning opened a golden fan
 In your elm tree
And evening spread her colors out
 For your little house to see.

I must follow a dark road,
 A road that has no turning-
But I shall remember candlelight
 And the low fire burning.


Scheme aBxb xcxc xdxd xbaB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1101010 0011010 1010110101 10110 1101001101 00101101 111011 11010 10100101 0111 01010101 1110111 1110011 0111110 11101010 0011010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 467
Words 97
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by Lynlacava on June 02, 2022

Modified on May 01, 2023

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