Analysis of In a Big House
Mathew L. Hunt 1973 (Los Alamitos, CA)
In a big house, people are there
Having fun, making noise everywhere,
Laughing until the hours are done.
I am there, but I am no one.
In a big chest, pain and sorrow are there.
They linger and are much too hard to bear,
Reminders of love that was taken.
My heart is there, and it is breaking.
In a big town, people rush by
To work or shop or eat they drive,
Too busy to smell the roses there.
Alone I walk, nobody cares.
In a big world, countries ally
To battle and to war they fly
Over religion and boundaries of land.
Peace is there, they do not understand.
In a big house, the halls are silent,
Nobody is there and all is quiet.
The air is still and time has run.
I am there, but I am no one.
Scheme | aabB aabx cxax ccdd xxbB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 00111011 10110110 100101011 11111111 0011101011 1100111111 010111110 111101110 00111011 11111111 110110101 011111 00111010 11001111 10010010011 11111101 001101110 11101110 01110111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
Written years ago when I was in graduate school.
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