This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Complete that begins with:

I.
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light....

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcbc dbcec ddXfbd ghXihji dbddd had fdeecdc X jdjdkada cceie llccddhh dacca X hmlbal ccldcidi dbdbdcdc X dfaca jnbn oejej bibpb fdada ccbeb Ccdjd a cddcdlc cnekn eqncneada nodkd feded acXbd bdeee a dfdfddabdbb adjdej dckcddjlhl jdhkd fcXabc hXXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,6,7,5,3,7,1,8,5,8,5,1,6,8,8,1,5,4,5,5,5,5,5,1,7,5,9,5,5,5,5,1,11,6,10,5,6,5,5,5,4,34,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,1,10,6,5,7,22,6,10,8,6,1,6,4,5,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,12,7,11,13,15,14,1,17,12,1,8,5,4,5,4,4,5,5,4,1,5,6,10,6,4,6,1,19,25,11,9,1,10,17,11,5,5,10,5,4,5,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 250
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 1597
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, we, and, good, our, rain, night, have, to, with, some, from, her, he, house, him, or, over, city, voices, one, you, 'i, who, weave, i, in, his, wind, she, it, death, paul, they, smiles, them, me, my, would, that, what, dead, ', music, half, down, on, room, sometimes, as, darling, altered, world are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, or, we, our, and, from, to, over, rain, voices, 'i, thousands, of, her, she, he, a, smiling, blowing, each, it, above, there, where, death, two, they, time, somehow, some, that, through, half, what, your, nothing, you, sometimes, here, one, with are repeated.

    The author used the same words our, one, along, and, the, 'i, 'there, she, in, as, this, here 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 ', you, her, it, go, me, forehead, altered are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words ', death at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases it, paul, music, moving, evenings, altered connect the lines.

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  • summary of The House Of Dust: Complete;
  • central theme;
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