This is an analysis of the poem Mine Host that begins with:
There stands a hostel by a travelled way;
Life is the road and Death the worthy host;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbX ccccXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 1001110101 1111110101 1011100110101 10101010111 1101010101 1101111111 10111101010 0111011111 1101110101 1101011101 1100010101 10111010111010 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; we, of, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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- summary of Mine Host;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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