This is an analysis of In The Carlyle House, Chelsea by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
Up the steep stair they clatter to each room,
In whispered merriment they pierce the gloom…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddbbee ffeeeegg bbhhiiee bbjjkk bbeEjjbbee kkhhddXeeeEjj
- Stanza lengths: 6,8,8,8,6,10,13,
- Metre: 1011110011 0101001101 0111010011 0101011101 1101110101 0111110001 1111110011 1101010101 1111110101 1001110101 0011010101 0100010111 1011011101 1101011101 1111110101 0101010101 0101010111 0101010111 1111110101 1101001101 1101010001 0101011101 1111010100 0111101101 0011010101 11001110101 1011110101 0101011101 0110111111 1101111011 1111110101 10110010111 1110010101 1001010101 1111011101 1101011111 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 01011100101 0101010111 1101010101 1001010111 1101010101 0111000101 11001010101 1111001111 0101011011 0101011101 1111010101 1101010101 10010100111 1001011001 10111111111 0101010101 01011100101 1001010111 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 58
Repeated words/phrases
to, his, and, in, on
Anaphora
to, and
