Analysis of I Built Myself a House of Glass
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
I built myself a house of glass:
It took my years to make it:
And I was proud. But now, alas!
Would God someone would break it.
But it looks too magnificent.
No neighbour casts a stone
From where he dwells, in tenement
Or palace of glass, alone.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1110111 1111111 01111101 111111 11110100 11101 11110100 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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