This is an analysis of the poem A Rare Guest that begins with:
Love, that all men think they know,
Is a rare guest here below;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABB cddbXeeff XeegghheeaacX Xccibbbee XjjiXkk cbicXeeddXXXAABB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,13,9,7,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 0011101 1010101 1101001 1 1110101 0010001 10011100 1010100 1110101 1011001 1111111 1010101 1 1110101 1011101 0010101 00100101 1011111 1010111 1010101 1101011 1110011 1010101 1011101 0000101 1 1010101 1110101 1010101 1011100 10010101 1110101 1010001 1111101 1 11111010 10100010 1010101 1010100 1010101 1010100 1 1010011 1111101 1011100 1000100 1011101 0010001 1010101 1010111 10101100 11101010 1111111 0011101 1010101 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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