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Can you help me for this poem?!thanks!?

Empty House by Stephen Spender I'm from Italy and I need your help for a test: can you tell me something to tell the teacher about this poem?for example what do you feel reading it or something about the structure..thanks you a lot! EMPTY HOUSE Then,when the child was gone, I was alone In the house, suddenly grown vast.Each noise Explained its orign away Animal , vegetable , mineral , Nail,creaking board, or little mouse. But mostly there was quiet of after a battle Round the room where lay The soldiers and the paint-box , all the toys. Then, when I went to tidy these away, My hands refused to serve: My body was this house, Each plaything that he’d touched, an exposed nerve.

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1. This is about: A parent now living in a childless home notices the extraordinary silence that comes with that absence. In the structure there is rhymes.