Analysis of The Country House
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Did the door move, or was it always ajar?
The gladioli on the table are pale mauve.
I smell pale mauve and blue,
Blue soft like bruises—putrid—oozing—
The air oozes blue—mauve—
And the door with the black line where it does not shut!
I must pass that door to go to bed,
Or I must stay here
And watch the crack
Oozing air.
| Scheme | XAXXAX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1011111101 011010111 111101 111101010 011011 001101111111 111111111 11111 0101 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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