Analysis of My Tenant
Philip M. Raskin 1880 ( Shklov, Russia) – 1944 ( New York)
In my youth hope hired
In my heart a tent;
Promised me a fortune,
Never paid her rent.
Bankrupt is my tenant—
This I know at length—
Why then to expel her
Do I lack the strength?
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011110 01101 101010 10101 101110 11111 111010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 195 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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