This is an analysis of the poem Modern Love Xvii: At Dinner She Is Hostess that begins with:
At dinner, she is hostess, I am host.
Went the feast ever cheerfuller? She keeps ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbbXXXXXcaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1011010011 01010101001 0100011111 01001011101 0001010101 1001001001 1110010110 1101010011 100001101110 1101110101 11011100 11010010101 1101001101 1111010101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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