This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 02: 05: Retrospect that begins with:
Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops,
Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabca defegf gchfXheXhh XffXgf diXi iibbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,10,6,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110010100 1001111111 010101001110 100100110110 110100110101 111111001010 1101010001010 101011010111 10100111110 10111010010 110111 011100101010 11101110011 011110101 110111100111 10010110010 01010010101 110101001001 010111010100 1001001111 101010011101 10011100101 01110010101 010010101101 11010111101 11011101110 1001111111 110011101010 1101010111 01110101110 0101010111 10101101001 101001101 10111001010 10010101010 11010010101 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, it, where, his, death are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, it, where, the, death are repeated.
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- summary of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 05: Retrospect;
- 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 The House Of Dust: Part 03: 03: Haunted Chambers
- Analysis of Turns And Movies: The Cornet
- Analysis of Multitudes Turn In Darkness
