Analysis of The House on the Hill
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
They are all gone away,
The house is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say.
Through broken walls and gray
The winds blow bleak and shrill:
They are all gone away.
Nor is there one today
To speak them good or ill:
There is nothing more to say.
Why is it then we stray
Around the sunken sill?
They are all gone away.
And our poor fancy-play
For them is wasted skill:
There is nothing more to say.
There is ruin and decay
In the House on the Hill
They are all gone away,
There is nothing more to say.
Scheme | AbA abA abA abA abA abAA |
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Poetic Form | Villanelle |
Metre | 111101 011101 1110111 110101 011101 111101 111101 111111 1110111 111111 010101 111101 0101101 111101 1110111 1110001 001101 111101 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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