Home is so Sad

This is a short emotive poem personifying a home, suggesting it should not be left or neglected and saying it needs life inside it to be alive. It has a ABABA rhyme scheme and is only two stanzas long. 

Stanza 1:

• 'sad.' ceasura emphasizes the emotion.
• 'it stays as it was left' suggests it is controlled by others, the life inside it.
• 'shaped to the comfort' suggests it is eager to please and demonstrates how each home is personal.
• 'to win them back' suggests it has been abandoned. 
• 'bereft' is emotive.
• 'it withers' imagery provoking sympathy.
• 'having no heart' shows how it literally is not alive, but also it lacks the people inside it that brings it alive. 

Stanza 2:

• 'what it started as' shows reminising
• 'a joyous shot...long fallen wide' connotes how things change and get worse over time, can't last forever. 
• 'pictures''cutlery''music in the piano stool' and 'that vase' finishing the poem give examples of things that were once alive like the house, when the music is playing and with the flowers in but are dead without them. Flowers also link to mourning suggesting the house is dead. These objects are also sociable things, so be enjoyed with lots of people like the house.