This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 02: 09: Interlude that begins with:
The days, the nights, flow one by one above us,
The hours go silently over our lifted faces, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcb Xdcd cbece ffaf abfb egeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011111011 01011001011010 11110110101 011111001010 11111110111 111101111010 11010110111 01110101010 111100101 11111111010 010111001011 11100101 11111101110 111100101 111101001010 11011100111 110010101010 1110111101 1101110111 1111010101 101100111110 010100100111 01110100101 01110101 11101011110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; we, and, cloths are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we are repeated.
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of Sea Holly
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: As Evening Falls
