This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 02: 06: Adele And Davis that begins with:

She turned her head on the pillow, and cried once more.
And drawing a shaken breath, and closing her eyes,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXddXeadaffghgiXj kXeXgdelbekjXeiXXfXieXldc XbjfiXXgffd ddjXhXfai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,25,11,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101111 110010111001 0110110101 011011001010 10110010101 11111111110 110101010111 1101011111 01010100011 11001101110 1011110001 01010111010 11111111010 11000101001 11110100010 10110101110 01011010101 1011100111 1101110111 110101001010 11000011101 1111110010001 111101101001 110111011010 1111010111 0101010011 11110100101 0111010101 10011111010 10100101010 11011101110 1101111110000 11011111111 1001111111 10111110 11110100000 111111001110 011101111000 111100111111 011111000110 1011011010100 111101001111 1101111101 1111100001111 0001000010100 1101111101 1001011101 011101101010 1101011011 1101001101110 1101001001010 1111111111 11100110010010 01111111010 111110001010 1111011101 11111111110 1011110001 11110101110 10011101011 101111000100 10011101000 110010111011 1011011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 812
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she, ', what, say, he, would, felix, it, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', her are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase paul connects the lines.

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  • summary of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 06: Adele And Davis;
  • central theme;
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