This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04: Up High Black Walls, Up Sombre Terraces that begins with:
Up high black walls, up sombre terraces,
Clinging like luminous birds to the sides of cliffs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdc efgf Xhehe gXgXg bacac ddghgXddaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111100 101100100101 01011100101 0111101001 11011110101 1100101110010 011100101111 1100100111110 111111 101010101110 1001001101 01010010010 01011101101 010100010 1111011111 1001010101 0010110010101 11111100101 111101 11111101001 11010100111 1110101 11010111111 1100111 11101111101 010010101 01001110101 11010011101 0010100101101 11001110101 11001110011 10011101 0100101010010 11010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from, to 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.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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