This is an analysis of My Home by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

This is the place that I love the best,
A little brown house, like a ground-bird's nest,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb dddd ccee ccXX ffggXaaddaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,11,
  • Metre: 000111101 0101110111 101101111 100100111 0100111011 11011101 11101111 111101111 1110111 01010101 11010011 11010111 010101101 10011111 1100110101 0101100101 00100101001 110110101 11101101111 10101101100 10110101 1010101111 11100101 110110101 10010111 11111101 11101101 110111001 001111101 0101110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 30

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