Analysis of The Dusty House

Steve Cochrane 1955 (Cape)



There was a dusty man who had
A home with dust on dust.
His neighbors thought it looked real bad
As windows broke with just

Vibrations from car radios
When they were turned up high
Enough to rattle rows and rows
Of houses they passed by.

The dust would ooze, then flow and flow
Onto the ground outside.
The neighbors asked, "Where does it go?"
But he would not confide

In neighbors who would laugh at him,
When they saw him each day!
In fact, the chances were quite slim
That he would ever say.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 11010111 011111 11011111 110111 0101110 110111 01110101 110111 01111101 100111 01011111 111101 01011111 111111 01010011 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 497
Words 104
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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Written on February 01, 2024

Submitted by stevec.24118 on May 02, 2024

Modified by stevec.24118 on May 02, 2024

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