This is an analysis of Edward Hopper And The House By The Railroad (1925) by Edward Hirsch.
Out here in the exact middle of the day,
This strange, gawky house has the expression…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcd eXef gfXX hadX gXgg hddg XbeX fcaf fefbXbhbd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11000110001 0110110010 01110111110 01101011010 0100100101 000101011 101010101 001011101 101010100010 10110111101 0111110100 00101111 011001100010 011110001 01011010010 101010111 11110101 111100101 110010010101 10000010111 10100100110 010101001 10110100100 110011011 0110101111 0101101011 00100111001 1110011010 11110110101 10011011110 01011001 1011001 01011001010 110101001011010 111010011 1110101010 0100101011 1011110100110 11100100101 011111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
ashamed, of, its, someone
Anaphora
the
