This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 03: 02: The Screen Maiden that begins with:
You read—what is it, then that you are reading?
What music moves so silently in your mind?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbc Xded XXfXf gdhd ijej bjej dkik hbab eibi bcdc fjaj hlbl gihi mlgl klml ajhj mkXk mbXX giXi lcXX ijmj XXkl iene Xbkb blil nbXX iXajXlbhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110000111110 11011100011 111101 11101101010 110110010101 010010100100000 01010100111 110111010011 1010111101101 1001001001000 10010010000100 1111010111 0101001011000 1101011001 110101010110 011111 110101001010 10100101 11001101010 1010101 11110010011 1100101 111100101111 010101 11011101011 110101 1111110101 110101101 110101101110 111101 10010101010 011101 01110111110 010101 110100111110 111111 011000101010 110111 10010101010 110111 100101010010 111101 10011101111 11110111 011111110010 110101 1111011100010 110101 11110111110 110111 11111101010 110111 11011011100 110001 10111100110 11110111101 1110100101110 111101111 101010111101 1101001 100111011110 1111101 110101110010 111101 101100110010 10100101 01010101110 0100101 010111010110 0101 01111101010 111101 1010111111000 11010010 101011111110 111101 01111111110 0111001 11110111111 011101 110101111000 11110000 100101011010 1100101 011101001010 111101 1111110111101 110110 100111001010 10110101 100100111010 110101 101100111011 111011 110111011010 101101 11010111001 1001001 10111010110111 1100001 0101011010010 111111 110011111011 10101011 11011100001010 111111 111111001110 11111110 1011010101010 1010101 101100111001 110011111 1010011111010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, rain, in, and, or, her, he, to, dead, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, rain, and, that are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of Turns And Movies: Zudora
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 06: Portrait Of One Dead
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 08: The Box With Silver Handles
