This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 03: 08: Coffins: Interlude that begins with:

Wind blows. Snow falls. The great clock in its tower
Ticks with reverberant coil and tolls the hour:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcb defbf dggXg heiXi Xdaea jcchc cckck ehljl aeXkj hcmam
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110010 101000111010 1011010101 01110101011 11111101101 111101100010 010101101010 100100100101 111101011111 11110111111 111010010010 01000111011 1110100101 101010010100 1011011111 11100111110 101101101010 01110011101 1100101001110 01110100111 10101001010 1101001001010 0010101001010 1111010001101 110101001010 1001010010010 010111001110 110111 010011101110 11010100101 11011111011 11011101011 01011111 010110101010 11100100101 10110101011 10011111110 10010111101 10011110010 101110011101 11101101010 1100101001111 101101001110 111011101010 11010101011 110100111010 110110101010 110101 101001010101010 1101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, of, to, who, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, one, they, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word one 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: 08: Coffins: Interlude;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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