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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