This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11: Conversation: Undertones that begins with:

What shall we talk of? Li Po? Hokusai?
You narrow your long dark eyes to fascinate me;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabB cbdbd Xecbb fXbbb bXgfg XXXbBh biXhaccbbee XcbbbXjjhXiibbcbXXX kgkck
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,6,11,19,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011100 110111101011 11010110111 110100100101 1111110111 1100000101110 01010101010 11011111 01111100010 01001011111 11110001100000 11010111101 1111010100 01110101111 1101111101 111101111010 0111010100000 10010101101 11010111110 1111110111 11111001010 01110101001000 101110000001 11001100110 1101111101 1001100111110 101101110110 11111000010 1010100100101 1111110111 11100011111 110101010010 01111111110 01101101010 10011101010 11110001111 110100100101 11010011 111111 10110111001 11111101111 0100101 110001001110 001010111011 110101001111 010101011111 10010110101 11001111110 10010011101 1011111001 110111 111001001100 1001110 010010101010 1111 10100010111 110100111011 11110010111 111111001100 1011110111 1110101011111 010111010010 10011110010 0111010 1100101001010 111100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • 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; you, with, and are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shadows is repeated).

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  • summary of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11: Conversation: Undertones;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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