Analysis of Abandoned
Joseph Auslander 1897 (Philadelphia) – 1965 (Coral Gables)
Vacant and ghostly and content with death,
Once a man’s hearthtree; now the haunt of bats;
Once a cradle creaked upstairs and someone sang
The terribly beautiful songs young mothers know.
It is hard, even though you hold your breath,
To step without disturbing the loosened slats
And livid plaster…. Go! for a whisper rang
Through the bleak rafters: Take up your things and go!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001001011 101110111 1010101011 010010011101 1111011111 11010100101 01010110101 10110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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