This is an analysis of the poem The Guest House that begins with:

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab acd bcadXee aXX ceX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,7,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100011 1001001010 010010010 110100101 111010100 10110101 100101010 11000111 1000100 11111000 1101011 11101 01101010 1010110 10100 01010101 011101 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Guest House;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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