This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 02: 08: The Box With Silver Handles that begins with:
Well,—it was two days after my husband died—
Two days! And the earth still raw above him....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcdecfghbfXeXdgaijfXgjddXefgXggXhXdjifededXcdXXgXgeXddfegkXXjk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111011010 1110111011 11110010011 0101010011100 11011101011 1101010 101010100010010 11001111101 11101111111 110010011101 11110101111 111100101 111101101011 11111100110 10101101011 011101001010 11110011101 01011101111 1011101110001 1010111111 111110101111 1101101101 10111111010 1101110101 110111011111 1111110101 1111011100 11111110 11110111010 11110111111 11111111010 11111101011 11111101101 10010100111 0110111110110 11010111001 1111111101 11011010101 10110101011 11010111111 1111010111 0011100111 11010111010 1100011101 110100100110 101001110100 1100011010100 01110011101 01010111100 0110111101 11010101111 11111111010 1101011101 11010101111 101111001110 11010101110 01011110011 11110101111 1110001111110 11111111010 10010101110 01011111100 1101010101010100 11011011010 111010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3144
- Average number of words per stanza: 586
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, me, to, i, it, as, in, with, my, would, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, somehow are repeated.
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; Bells Toll, And Along The Cloud-High Towers
- Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 12
