Analysis of Hospitality
with the old man –
......his exquisite hospitality
in the shack by the river –
that is, no hospitality
just emptying the bottle into my glass
and filling my plate
and falling asleep
when it was time to go
| Scheme | X A X A X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 11000100 0011010 1110100 11000100111 01011 01001 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 216 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 20 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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