This is an analysis of The Lonesomest House by Jean Blewett.
It's the lonesomest house you ever saw,
This big gray house where I stay.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdXd efaf egeg cgdg eheh Xcac aiXi bhgh baXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 00100011101 0111111 1110101111 1110101 101110101 10100101 1110110100 1111111 1110110111 010001001 110010101 1100101 1111010011 1011001 100111001 01101101 1110111101 10111101 1101100111 0100111 1111101011 1101111 1011100101 1111111 1110101111 1111111 1100111001 1110111 110100101 1100111 0101111101 1111011 1110101111 11111101 111100111 1011001 10101000101 0011101 0011011111 0010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
her
Anaphora
and
