This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 02: 07: Two Lovers: Overtones that begins with:
Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple,
Two lovers blow together like music blowing:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbXdbbX dXaaddefXfgbbhXgg cbebccXdddd Xbidi hcdeh jkkjjekkjj cfdjX ihahXiibhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,17,11,5,5,10,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110101010 110101011010 10101010101 010101110010 1101010101 11110101111 111011101 1111110111 1011110101 11001111100 11101011111 1011000100 110110101 0110011101 1010110101 101100101 11100111110 101101 1100110111100 111100111 010101 010011101 010011101011 01010101001 10111111101 1101111111 110101 11011111011 110101001 101001111010 10010101001 110101 10110011101 01011100101 001011101 11011010111 100101 0101011111 111100101 1111110111 010111 01110101010 10111011 10010010111 111101110010 10010101001 1110111110010 110100111 10010110101 1101001 10110100101 110111 110100111001 100101111010 01110101101 100100101011 11010101101 001010111101 11110010101 111011111111 01010101111 110111010011 110100111 1101001101010 110101101101 010101111110 1101111 11011101010 1011001001110 110100111101 01110111011 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; they, she, and, smiles, in, we, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, they, the, she, he, time are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase music connects the lines.
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11: Conversation: Undertones
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-Song
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 06: Adele And Davis
