This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12: Witches' Sabbath that begins with:
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud
And the cold clear dark of starlight fell,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdaeffeagggaahhiejejggkakjllaaahaajmj jfgfbb jajaajaj aakjajdeffgng hhfflagliiiiffnnljfjXXXajaenfXdaaaabb nkolkjXjlikaidddcffnddljij AXlhbh jgjjjjjjddffaggjjojoj abAjjamamXdd jgnnnnffaajjjjgaiajjjjijnjnjijijee ajjjffddchcehjh najadgfgdfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,6,8,13,37,26,6,21,12,34,15,14,14,2,6,12,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111001 101110111 110010111 10100101 10101010 100110101 01010101 100101011 10101101 10111101 10010111 11110101 110100111 110010001 11110101 11010101 110010111 011111001 11011111 10111101 111111001 0101001001 10101001 100111001 101110101 011111101 11101001110 0110100101 0010101010 1110101001 0111101 1100101111 11010111 11011101 010110111 11011111 10011111 000111111 00011111 0101101 001110111 011101010 11010101 11011110 010100111 01011101 101110001 010010100111 101110101 001101011 1111110010 1110010111 011111011 01011101 10111111 01110011010010 110111 100111011110 1100100111101 101100101101 111001011 1101011001 1011001 111001001001 011110111 011100111 1110010 11011011111001 011100101 011100111 101010101 011111101 1010110101 111100101 101100101 11010101 01111101 01110111 010011111 011101101 110101111 110010111 011100101 10111111 110110101 10111111 110101001 010101001 010110100 11111011100 10010111 111110111 10110111 011101111 010011101 1010110101 101111001 111111101 110011111 10010111 10100111 110101101 0100110101 11010101 111110001 1010111111 10010101010 11100111001 111001010011 00101010 010101 110101001010 11110011 1101111110011 110101101 0111010 1111001111 1 11011011111 11111101 1111 010100110 011100101 101101 1110010110010 010110100111 11111101 11111100101 101110101 11110111 1011 101101111 001101011 111111101110 01101 111001001110 0111011 00111101 011100101 111010111 100110111 01111111 001111101 010100111 01010111 11111111 111110011 10011101 110100101 11011111 110111001 011100101 1100011101 1111001111 00010101 11110101 110111001 11100111 110110101 10110111 101101111 00110101 101100101 1100100101 111011111 1100100111 111100101 10011010100 111101001 101010101 010101001 10011111 111110101 110100101 110011111 111110101 111111101 1011110111 00111111 111100101 111010101 111100101 11010101 1111100101 1110111001 11101101 111011101 0010101001 11011101 11011101 001010101 11110111 110101101 1111011001 0111110101 110100111 11101101 101010111 01110111 011100111 10110111 10110110101 1100111001 110010101 0100101011001 10110111 10010011001010 1111101001 110111111 111111001001 001111001101 111101100101 1001011110 001001 1001110 1011110111 0001111 101100101 101001 1111 11010101 11111110 11100111 10111101 01111101 101110111 111111101 1010111101 10111011001 11110011010 11101111 10101010 11110101 001111011 101100110 0101111011 0111101010 11100111 011100101 1011011111 010111011 101101101 10111101 111101101 11001111100 111100101 1111011010 10011111 1110101 10011101 010011111 011110101 11010111 100100111 01001001001 01111111 01110111 110111001 110010101 111101111 110011101 110110111 110011101 10010011 011111101 011100101 001101101 101101111 001101011 110111110 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 449
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 279
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, of, and, her, forget, in, they, him, with, like, one, these, i, under, you, your, mouth, this, dance, darling, that, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, this, forget, the, they, look, see, there, dance, i, we are repeated.
The author used the same word silence 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 him is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases these, dance connect the lines.
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 04: Nightmare
- Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 04
