This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-Song that begins with:
No, I shall not say why it is that I love you—
Why do you ask me, save for vanity?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdXdecfgahbgegidg gfaX XXbXXefcjjjXcXXgj cadXcXaXgaijjcgj XfghXcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,4,17,16,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110011110 1111111100 10111111010 1100111010010 11101001001110 11110101001 101111111010 110011111010 1001101000111 11001111011 10110101011 010110101110 1100111101110 1100101011010 110110111011 11010111010 01010101011 1001110101 1101011111 01110101011 110101011111 111111110011 101001010010 11110011101 111111011110 011111111101 11111111110 110101010100 1111010011100 10111111010 11011101111 11010011111 11100101010 1110101010 110101001010 110111101110 10110100101 11011110111 1111001111000 11111111011 111111001100 0111001101111 110101011110 110111001011 11010111110 100111011111 111111011 1100101011010 110101010110 1011111101 10011111010 1011111010110 1101101111010 11111101100 11101111110 11001111011 110111111101 110100111111 11110111011 110100111111 01101001110010 0011111111 111111001111 10100100100010 11010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 675
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; you, of, or, blue, in, and, say, them, with, what, i, these, touch are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, or, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, them are repeated).
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 06: Adele And Davis
- Analysis of The Tower
- Analysis of The Dreamer Of Dreams
