This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 03: 07: Porcelain that begins with:
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window—
Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcde fgXgXh iicbbXceebcbXXXXbbjXXcbXdXiagXdi XiXfbefbXkkXjXXXdjXXdjged XcgihXkgXgjd iikadXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,32,25,12,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001100100 101111011100 11010011010 110101001010 110100000111 11010100010 011110 100101100100 01110101010 011111010100 11010111110 11011001010 1010101010 0111110101 01011101011 11100110011 0100101110010 1011111101 110111010110 1111110111 10010100111 1001110001100 1001011101 1011011111 01110100101 011111011100 010001010010 0101010101 10001101011100 001010001001 110100111010 0101110111 11110111010 10011100 1111110101 0100101010010 1011101101 01011011010 100101111100 1001010111 111101100110 11111111110 001010010111000 100101110010 11011111011 10010100101100 010101000111 10010111110 110100010110 11110100101 11110110111 1001001101 11100001101 1001100010101 0101110001 1101011011 1101000111101 11011111010 11010001011100 0011101111 110111011110 111101001010 1101010011 1001100111000 1111011101000 01110000110 011100111010 10110101010 1101111111 111010 101101000100 10111111010 11111101110 011110111101 11011100101 1001010011 1111111001 0101110001110 0111011110010 0111001001110 01011111010 101111001110 0001011101 0111010001 001011101011 010110010010 101101111110 011101110100 11110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 721
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; and, sometimes, to, i, or, darling, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sometimes, here, a are repeated.
The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, forehead are repeated).
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 05: Melody In A Restaurant
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 04: 02: Death: And A Derisive Chorus
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 03: Interlude
