This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 03: 09: Cabaret that begins with:
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence.
You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcX dDeXe afgfg XfhDX hchXh bhiXX dhXbh fhhXh fahbX highgXbbebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101111010 11111111010 11011111011 01100111110 11011110111 11111101010 11010101010 10100100101 110101011100 11110111111 100101111010 110011111010 10101011101 111101101010 111100011111 1111011110100 10011101010 110111 11010101010 11011101111 11111111110 11001100010010 11011110111 011111011001 1001111111 100101011010 110100111110 010010110111 111101111000 1110010010100 11010101010 111101001110 1100100100110 10010101010 01011110101 010100101110 01010111011 100101 111100111010 010011 11110111010 11000111011 1101010101 11110011110 11110001101 111100101010 11011111011 11110011001 010101111010 010111 0100111010100 010011101110 0100101 11101111010 111010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 55
- 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; you, what, or, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, with, the are repeated.
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