Analysis of Home is so Sad
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
Scheme | ABABA XCXCX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111111111 1101010111 1111110101 110111101 1011110101 0101111101 0101111111 1101111111 1101000100 01000010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 386 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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