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
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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Philip M. Raskin

Raskin was born on December 24, 1880, in Shklov, Russia.[1] After emigrating to England, he worked at the Leeds Health Department. In 1914, he published his first poetry collection, Songs of a Jew, and the following year, he immigrated to the United States. He continued to publish his own poetry, in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, as well as an anthology of modern Jewish poetry. He died on February 6, 1944, in New York more…

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