Quatrain · Poems About Mom
Home Is a Person
They say that home's an address,
a roof, a key, a floor —
so why does any room feel home
the minute you're through the door?
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Home Is a Person
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Quatrain, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Poems About Mom, Family, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- End rhyme
- ABCB — ballad rhyme — only lines 2 and 4 chime.
- Line length
- Consistent with common metre. Alternating eight- and six-syllable lines — the hymn stanza (8.6.8.6), the most-used quatrain in English verse.
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Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalHome Is a Person, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 f63d7cbeb8502cc5…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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