This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; Bells Toll, And Along The Cloud-High Towers that begins with:
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers
The golden lights go out . . ....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddaaaa efggaX aaXda abbahii ejjakaffahacciicXXbbdd caacac ekkhbllbcc jjcjkcXc ddaamm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,5,7,22,6,10,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110101110 010111 01010100111 010011110101 111111 11010101111 01101011 11010100111 0101011001110 01001010 11111111010 111001101001111 01001 11001011111 10010111 10010011011 11010110101 01111100111 0110101101000 01110111011 000111 1111001 1001011001 100101 00110111111 11100101 11100111001 10101101 11110111110 0111010111 1011011 01110100111 101001001010 110010111111 111010111011 110110101 01010100101 100101001 1010100100111 100101001 0110111001 01011100101 110101 01110001101 1001011111 0100100100 000101110010001 10111 110011100101 0010101 1111010101 10111101 011011 010011101101 10010101011001 1010010010101 11010010010010 11100010 10010 010111110101 10100111101 11010111001 0100100111 11010010101 11101 100101101001 0101111001 10100100101 1101001001001 11111100101 111101001010 111001001 011101010010011 111111101101 1111111 11111111001 10100111 11110011111 111100101001 110010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, wind, and, she, to, have, he, would, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, a, smiling, blowing, she, and, he are repeated.
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