This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06: Over The Darkened City, The City Of Towers that begins with:
Over the darkened city, the city of towers,
The city of a thousand gates,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaacdadd caeaXe afgfaaehih eaiga XfXcdf iXXbX hhXjX kfjkX ffcf kbkbcclleeffeehhbbkebeababfafacXdX icafa bemam fedbd ifiXi aaiji dgXee XifjXXaaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,10,5,6,5,5,5,4,34,5,5,5,5,5,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010010010 01000101 1001010101010 100100100111 0111100111 001011111 111100101001 110110101 1111010111 11101001010 01011101111 010110101001 11010111011 11110 01110011111 11110101010011 001010 1001110101 11100101 101101010010010 010011101 110010111 10111 0111001001010 0101001 100101001011 111111 101101111010 01111011101 011100111110 0001001011010 100111 1011100100100 1101011101 11010010101 0100101010011 100100111010 11010111111 11011101111 101111011 110111110110 11011101101 011011010111 1101110111 10011100101 01111100011 110111010011 01000010101 110111001010 0100101101001 111111101101 1100110111010 101010011011 1111101 110111001 100101110011 100101001 11011101110 10100101 10010111110 0010100101 0010110011101 100100101001 1111101 0111 011101111110 010101101010 0111101001 10101 110110111010 11001101110 0100111011 010101110111 11100101101 0010101101 010101010010 0111111010 1110110010100 1001010 11111000111 11110101 10101111111 1100101 1110100100111 110011101 1010011111001 11111101 111111111 11101010 011111100101 11100101011 11011011111 11010101101 111010101010 101111011010 1111000101010 11100111001 1101001110010 01001101011 11101001011 11100110101 111111001 0010100111110 11010100101 0100101001011 011100111 11011111001 010110111011 1010101111 1101001010 111101 110010111 1100100101 111110101111 111111001111 1011111111 11001001011110 1101001010010 11011101 011101110010 110111111010 1111100101 11011110101 100101 11001101101 11001110110 0111101110010 011100111 1110101001010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; over, city, of, voices, one, you, 'i, who, and, weave, i, he, in, rain, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words over, rain, and, voices, 'i, thousands, of, her, she, he, the are repeated.
The author used the same word 'i 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 ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06: Over The Darkened City, The City Of Towers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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