This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 02: 11: Snow Falls. The Sky Is Grey, And Sullenly Glares that begins with:
Snow falls. The sky is grey, and sullenly glares
With purple lights in the canyoned street....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb ccaddaccaXa ebdXaaa eeXe efXf Xggeg Xccac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,7,4,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010111001 0101001001 01001101101011 010100101001 011100111 01010010101 11001110101 10001010001 10110101110 010100011011 01010010101 11110011010 10011111001 110111 11001001110010 1010010011101 101000101010 011101011010 011101111110 01111100001 11101111010 011011010101 010101001001 0111000111 0111001010110 1101010 010111001010 001010010 111100111010 111101101 1111101001010 1101 1111110010010 110111 1011 111001110010 1101111101 10111101000101 11011011011110 1111 10111011010010 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, in, one, and, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, and, some are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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