Analysis of The Old Lowe House, Staten Island
Alan Seeger 1888 (New York City) – 1916
Another prospect pleased the builder's eye,
And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes)
Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes
When first these gables rose against the sky.
Relic of a romantic taste gone by,
This stately monument alone remains,
Vacant, with lichened walls and window-panes
Blank as the windows of a skull. But I,
On evenings when autumnal winds have stirred
In the porch-vines, to this gray oracle
Have laid a wondering ear and oft-times heard,
As from the hollow of a stranded shell,
Old voices echoing (or my fancy erred)
Things indistinct, but not insensible.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 01011101 1001000101 1111010101 1010010111 1101000101 101110101 1101010111 1101010111 0011111100 11010010111 1101010101 11010011101 1001110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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