Analysis of The Sunlit House
Charlotte Mary Mew 1869 (Bloomsbury, London) – 1928 (London)
White, through the gate it gleamed and slept
In shattered sunshine. The parched garden flowers
Their scarlet petals from the beds unswept
Like children unloved and ill-kept
Dreamed through the hours Two blue hydrangeas by the blistered door burned brown
Watched there, and no one in the town
Cared to go past it night or day
Though why this was they wouldn't say
But I, the stranger, knew that I must stay.
Pace up the weed-grown paths and down -
Till one afternoon - there is just a doubt -
Bit I fancy I heard a tiny shout -
From an upper window a bird flew out -
And I went my way.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 0101011010 110101011 11001011 110101111010111 11011001 11111111 11111101 1101011111 11011101 110111101 1110110101 1110100111 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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