This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter that begins with:
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees
The soft blue starlight through the one small window,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXXcXdXX dXXedcfgh XcgiejjfcacXa XkXlacademjgd XbdXedXgg XfcgXdXeeainXgnmXhgbdkiac ncXcXXaXXnXjeejlXf iiaenhXchegXcdaj XnaXaciXcXdkXgXfjX dfXXlcjiiiagleXib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,9,13,13,9,25,18,16,18,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101100111 01111101110 010111111100 11010101110 001101111100 101111010100 1111111111 11011111110 100100011111000 110011101101 110111111100 1110001111000 1001111100 0101000001000 010100010000 10010101010 11011111011 01011011010 10011110010 1111001110100 1111100011 11011111100000 1011011011010 001011111110 10010101010 111100001010 11110101110 10011101010 010101111010 11011111110 01011100010 10010101110 010100111100 10011100010 0111111111 111100101111 01110110101 1101011101 11000101011 01110101111 110101100111 01010011111 01010100111 1111011001 1101111110 101100100010 01010101111 1101000100100 110110011010 0001110001 011110101110 01010001010 1001010101 1001100110000 11001001010 1100000101110 010001111100 01011101010 1010000101 11010101010 110101110100 101011001011 01111011100 11110111110 11110001010 01011101010 101100101110 11111001110 11010101011 10011111010 01111111010 11110110111 10010001101 00010000111 10011111010 11110101110 0111010101 00010101110 10110010111 00111111110 11010011101 10010110111 11111110010 10101111101000 1001110011 01001001110100 1100100001101 1111111101 11111001010100 01011101000 1101010111 01111100011100 1111010001 11110101010 11010101010 01010111110 1101010101 11010001100 10011101110 0111010111 11010101010 111100001010 1010111100 010010011010 1101011101 11010111100 1011110101 0111111011 11110111111 100110010110 1101110001 11100111010 1001111100 1111010111 010011101010 0101000111110 10111111010 1001111001 11010010010100 11011101110 1001111101 1110111010 0111001111100 11110111110 101111111100 11111111010 1101111101 11110010110110 10010110110 11111111110 010101111010 010101111010 0011011101 1111110101 111100111110 1111111110100 010101010100 11011101111 01010111111 10111111010 10010010110 01010101010 1101111100 10111111111 11111110001 111101001111 10110101010 110111010100 11110100111 01110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 664
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 150
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; and, i, of, this, dust, to, in, you, as, without, he, us, we, which, world, have, me, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, too, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines altered, meaning, darkness, purpose, them are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase altered connects the lines.
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 04: Nightmare
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