Analysis of What is home?

Kenzie Soloshy 2005 (British Columbia)



Is it concrete or does it breath
Is it covered in brick or does it speak
What is a place they call home they say
Trying to scavenge what’s left of a memory
Hopeless enough we come to realize
Home isn’t anything without a price
Home isn’t walls that try to comfort and it doesn’t speak to us unless we remember
What is a home to this day
Is it a place we seek or is it on display
Someone to lean or somewhere to stay
Home is a question in many ways but my home lays upon the coldness of my feet covered up in sweet vanilla heat
Is it just a memory?
Somewhere to loathe, someone to seek
Home doesn’t have walls and home will not comfort
Home is just a place where we feel better.


Scheme ABCDEFGCCCHDBIG
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11011111 1110011111 110111111 101100110100 100111110 11100101 11111110011111011010 1101111 110111111101 1111111 110100101111101010111101010101 1110100 111111 1111011110 1110111110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 699
Words 149
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 532
Words per stanza (avg) 138

About this poem

This poem is about what a home is to someone and what it really means to have a home.

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Written on August 16, 2023

Submitted by kenziesol on August 16, 2023

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Kenzie Soloshy

I’m a young girl from BC just recently I’ve been finding myself waking up and writing peoples anything that comes to my head really. I’m hoping this will encourage me to move forward in my career of poetry. more…

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