Analysis of A House—But No Home
A Poet with no following,
a speaker without ears
A siren in the shower,
a guitar no one hears
A frame with no picture,
an actor on loan
A choice with no decision,
a house—but no home
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XX AX AX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011100 010011 0100010 001111 011110 11011 0111010 01111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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