This is an analysis of the poem The Party that begins with:
The obscene hostess, mincing in the hall,
Gathers the guests around a crystal ball. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXb XcXcdc ccXede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0011010001 1001010101 00101101010 10010100101 01001010111 100001010101 011101010101 1000000111 1001111101 0111001001 11010010101 011001100101 010101010101 1101000111 1101110101 111101010001 010101011101 11101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Party;
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