This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01: The Round Red Sun Heaves Darkly Out Of The Sea that begins with:
The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea.
The walls and towers are warmed and gleam....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb ccdc ceXe Xcec XcXcXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101001 011101111 11100101110 01011110101 1011111001110 11111111 111011101010 11010011 111101001010 1111101110010 11011101110 01001011010 11111000010 1101110011 11110110010 11010101 1101010101 1001001010 11010100101 110010101010 101110110101 10010011101 1110011101 111011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and, we, each are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, and, he, each 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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- summary of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01: The Round Red Sun Heaves Darkly Out Of The Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 01
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12: Witches' Sabbath
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter
