This is an analysis of the poem The Sorry Hostess that begins with:
She said she was sorry the weather was bad
The night that she asked us to dine;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dcdcbebe fgfgacacXbcbccdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111001011 01111101 111001100001 01111101 111001111101 111111101 111011111001 101101001 111011011001 11111111 11111111001 01011011 101011101110 101001101 101011101001 11101001 101001101011 101001101 111001001101 101101011 111011011101 001101101 111111011001 101011111 11001101011 01111011 11111001101 11001001 11101011011 111011001 111011111111 01101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, that, for, and, sorry are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she, for are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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