This is an analysis of the poem Dutch Mistress that begins with:
A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals.
With wet Koh-i-noors the October rain...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacaacXcaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0010110010111001010 0111100101 11100101 001011101010 11010010101 0011010110 1010010000100 10100101 001001101001110 010110111 1010001101 11101101010 110100101 1000001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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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