This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait that begins with:
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons:
We move in crowds, we flow and talk together,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdXceeefghXhhacdaXbgihjjXkej clgXaeXdeXmmbdgadhXnXebXg cafanhdXmihkXo leejpceldgaXlfXcadXiXXkaaidkcfaadambeXXkggeceiaaonXbXXXXfgaeka XcXadXeXmecXdXllne ankjflmfpjmabcllameldXXdkXbakkeXek lmddgnnedmkdbjalXamhfdX beXdX hoeaXXXeamncedXmcjceadcbdXidfcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,25,14,62,18,34,23,5,31,17,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111010 11011111010 10110111110 110111010100 11110001010 0111001100 01110111110 11111101110 110010111001 01011111010 110010101010 01011101010 11110101010 01001010101 110101110100 11001011101 1101111101 0111011111 11010101010 010100101010 0101011001 11010101110 10010101010 1101010111 1111011101 1001111101 10110100010 010111000011 0110000011100 11011011110 10011111010 110101001011 01010101010 01010101011 01010101010 1111110101000 10111101110 1110011111 010101111100 1001110110 11010001101 010111110110 11011101110 100111001110 01010101010 11011001110 11101101010 1101111011 1101101111 1111010001 1111111111 1101110101 010111001000 110010111110 0111101010 1011000001110 11110010011 101011111010 11000111110 010111001010 110101110011 0101010101 10010000101 10111101110 01111100 01111111110 11100111011 01000111111 0111111101 0101001111110 1011110111 01110101011 1111010001 01110001001 111110010010 1011110111 10011101010 1110111101 00101110101 1111110111 1111111100 10111111011 1111001111100 01111101111 11110011010 11110101010 10010111010 0101010001 1001110011 0101010111000 01011011001 0101110100010 01110101110 0111110101 10000101010 11010100111 1011110001 0101011111 01111111110 01010101010 010101010110 110100000111 1101110111 11011011010 11110011011 1000011101 11010101110 11001100010 101100111100 01011001110 11110111110 11110101010 10111111000 11110111101 01110101110 1011010011 01110010111 01111101011 01010100110 1111101010 10010010101 111000011010 01010111010 10010101010 10111111000 010100110100 010111111000 01111100010 0111011101 10010101010 1001010011 11111111010 0111010101 111101111110 110010101010 1001111101 1101111101 11001111001 101101110100 10111111010 11110100100 11000111101 11110101010 001100101010 101011100110 1101010001 110100110000 1101110001 00010010101 0101100010 0101110111 1111011111 01010100010 0101011000 11010101010 110010101110 011100111011 1110100111 11111101010 0111011011 11110111010 1111011111 11110101110 110011101010 01010100111 01010011111 10111111111 01110101110 10101111010 01001111010 1111111101 01110111010 1101111100110 10011111110 10111101010 0111001010001 011100111001 010101101110 10110101010 100010101110 01110101011 11010110101 100001100100 1101011101 11010110111 01110101111 010010101101 11111011111 1100011100 11110101111 1101011111 11111111110 10111110101 01111111010 11110101110 1101111110 1111111111 10110111010 01011101010 1001111100 11110101111 10111101110 10111111110 11111011110 1111110101 111101111110 011111011100 11110110110 11111001010 1001010101 11011111000 11110111110 1101010 11111 11111100111 1011010111 1111011101 0101001010100 10010111100 01010101010 1111011101 10010101111 10011100010 11010111010 111101110010 10010111010 1101011111 1111010010100 11010111010 10110111010 11011011111 10111110010 111101001011 10011101010 110100111011 010101001010 010011111010 1111011111 101111000010 11001101001 111101011101 11001101010 110010111110 100100101110 11000011011 01001111100 11110111101 11110111010 0111011100 111111110100 11011101010 11010111010 100101111000 10010111010 010010111110 1001110111 01110111010 11001010011 111010111110 11011001010 11010010101 11111111111 110101111100 01010111110 11111111111 0101010101 10110100101 00111101111 11011111010 1111011101 011100111111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1090
- Average number of words per stanza: 188
- Amount of lines: 273
- 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; and, we, know, of, he, or, from, to, i, you, as, walls, me, in, this, darkness, word, it, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, just, such, walls, this, or, these, i, only, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cloud, them, i are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dead connects the lines.
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More information about poems by Conrad Potter Aiken
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: As Evening Falls
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 04: 01: Clairvoyant
- Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01: The Round Red Sun Heaves Darkly Out Of The Sea
