This is an analysis of the poem The Host, He Says That All Is Well that begins with:

He didn't want to do it with skill,
He'd had enough of skill. If he never saw...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbcad eaXbd fdgdechgcebiaihbfdid
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101001 11010101101 01010001011 10111100010 1110010101 101010011 1101011011 10111101 11001000101 11011110111 111101010111 1001110011 1011111010100 0100010110100 111101011110 100100101010 01011010011 11010101010 1011101111 10010101101 11101110101 11011101 1101010101 100110111 10111011101 1011011100 11010000101 10011110 100100100010 010010100101 00010101100 1001000101 010110010011 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 477
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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; it, he, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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