Poem Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: As Evening Falls by Conrad Potter Aiken for close reading

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As evening falls,
And the yellow lights leap one by one...

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Rhyme scheme: AbabaabbbbXAXccXcabdbaaccccaa aadXbbXeXe
Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,10,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: limerick
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101 101011111 0111 101111101001 010101 11001011111 010101100110101 0111110111 11010101 0101111000101 1101 1101 01011001010 010010010111 0101010101 011111001010 010101 0101011010010 1101010101 01111101010 0101 10010101010 1000110 1001111111 010101 100101011101 0111 10110110101 100100101 1101 0111001101 101100101010 10110101111 1111011111 01111101 01010111011 1111010101 11010111000 11111111
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 776
Average number of words per stanza: 134
Amount of lines: 39
Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase moving connects the lines.

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