The House Of Dust: Part 03: 06: Portrait Of One Dead by Conrad Potter Aiken: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 03: 06: Portrait Of One Dead that begins with:

This is the house. On one side there is darkness,
On one side there is light....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcddd XcacefXf XXXXc gdhih gbeje iagahh XXkik edcec hcaaa ciiji Xdcgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,5,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00011111010 111101 000101111100 11010000101 111100101110 011001 110010101110 010101 000111110100 111101 11111101010 110010101 11110001111 11011101 11010111111 110101 1001001011000 01110111110 10101011111 110101110110 11010001001 11110111010 11110101010 1001110101 110010110110 11010100101 110111001010 110100001111 110101 110000101010 0101010111 11011111010 110111 11010111010 110101 11110101010 11111011010 0101100011000 010101010100 110111 01010111110 0101010001 11110111011 01010101010 011011 10110111111 1011111111 101100111010 10111100010 101101 11010101010 1011010101 10111101110 01010101010 100111001001 10111111010 101101 01110111110 0101000001110 110101 110100010001010 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; one, she, room, in, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, nothing, you are repeated.

    The author used the same words this, here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 06: Portrait Of One Dead;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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