Analysis of Mine Host
John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
There stands a hostel by a travelled way;
Life is the road and Death the worthy host;
Each guest he greets, nor ever lacks to say,
"How have ye fared?" They answer him, the most,
"This lodging place is other than we sought;
We had intended farther, but the gloom
Came on apace, and found us ere we thought:
Yet will we lodge. Thou hast abundant room."
Within sit haggard men that speak no word,
No fire gleams their cheerful welcome shed;
No voice of fellowship or strife is heard
But silence of a multitude of dead.
"Naught can I offer ye," quoth Death, "but rest!"
And to his chamber leads each tired guest.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1111110101 1101110111 1101010101 1101011111 1111110101 0111011111 1101110101 111101111 110101011 1111011111 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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