This is an analysis of the poem The Wrong Hospitality that begins with:

How many skillful housewives, in this pleasant world of
ours, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ab aX bb X bX bX bXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,2,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1101011001010 1 101100101011010 10 1011010101011011 1 1010110101011011 11010111001000 1 10111110101 101 111111011111 101 11111111111100 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 58
  • Average number of words per stanza: 12
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

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

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