This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Host's Welcome that begins with:
It is late and cold; stir up the fire;
Sit close, and draw the table nigher;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeeffaaggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011111010 111101010 01011111 010100101 11010101 11110011 1111101 11111101 11010111 11110101 11011111 11111001 10101110 10111010 11110111 1111101 1010111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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