This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 01: 02: One, From His High Bright Window In A Tower that begins with:

One, from his high bright window in a tower,
Leans out, as evening falls,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcbc ddeXe ffddbbggXbcddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10011100010 111101 110010100010 100101111 1111011010010 1100111001 1001001000110 110100111 1001110101 11010100111 110101101 01010100111 110101 10100101001 1111 10110100101 10011101101 10011101001 10011101111 1111011111 010100100001 0111001010010 100100100111 1110111001 0101111101 0101101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The House Of Dust: Part 01: 02: One, From His High Bright Window In A Tower;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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