This is an analysis of the poem The Hosts that begins with:
Purged, with the life they left, of all
That makes life paltry and mean and small, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcdeeffgcgchhcicibbdd jajaXdkgkXlblbbbXXdedejjbbbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 111101111 01110101 010100101 110101101 101001001101 110111101 11010010001 110111111 1000101111 110101111 0101100100 1111101011 010100111 11110001 110110101 0111011111 111100101 11100100101 11110111 0100100101 1101100101 010111101 11010001 111010101 01010101 11011111 110100101 1010101111 0000010101 11101101 010100111 110110111 110001111 010101001 1111101000 110100111 111101101 10110101 010100011 111101111 01010101 101111100 01000100 11010101 1011100111 110100100 111101101 111110101 110101011 111110101 10100101 111101101 1100100100 10011111 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1134
- Average number of words per stanza: 202
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words these, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Hosts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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