This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema that begins with:

As evening falls,
The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls...

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbcddefXf ghihaaaaeaeeX JJXFaaaaccggfgigigjj klilliciliXdfd gjmjXgig jjffFfffjiXinaladdad AAenoobbjkjljbjlaXa faaaaeeeiaXaiXninni cchaahhbb JJfFjjeelea dadddhhfafa mbfaf afjejXffaia
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,20,14,8,20,19,19,9,11,11,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101 0111001101 101100101010 10110101111 1111011111 01111101 01010111011 1111010101 11010111000 11111111 111111111 11110110101 11010010101 1001010101 011011001010 101111101 11101001001010 010101001 010101101010 01010011 110101001010 10110111110 10110100110 1111101 1011010001 110110010010010 111 11011111001 11001111101 0101011101 10001110001101001 0111101101 0111011011 111110111 111101 111101010100101 111010111 1111101011 1101111101 11111111011 01110111 1010011101 11001010101 111100100001 10011111010 1111001101 10010111110 10111111110 11110000101101 11111111111 1110111101 11011111010 0111111111 11110101100 11110111110 11110101010 1111001100110 11110011011 1101111111 110100111110 11010111111 1011011110000 11010010111 10111111011 1111111111 1111101 10110010001 11011000101 01110100101 111 1101011111 111111 11010100111 1111011111 011100111 100101010 1001011001 0101001001010 011101 01011101110 10010010111 1110111110 1111101101 111001011110 1101010101 1101 0111001101 10110101011 011111011110 1011111111 100111 11010111010 11110111010 1100111 110011111010 11010110001001 1100111010010 11010111111 110011101110 11001101101 1010111110 0111110111 1000010011100 0111010001 01010101010 110100101110 11010111001 01001011111 1101011101 11010111010 11110010011 10110101111 1111111111 1111011011 110100100110 1101010101 1011111101 10111011010 10110111001 1101001111 0111001111 1101011111 1111111101 1111110111 0001010011 1111111101 10011101 1011000111 011111 01011100101 110100101010 01100111010 1111101 1011010001 111111101 111 1101110001 1011010111 010111101011 1001100111 100100111010 110010010101 011100101110 0111010101110 110101001010 111110111110 00100101101 111111101001 11111111101 11011111 11111100111 1111111011 1001111111 11010011101 01010111110 011100101010 1101111111 1101011001011 01111010111 11011101110 01110100011 10011101 111101011010 1001110111 1111111110 01111101110 1011001001001 01111101110 0101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 519
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 170
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, you, i, with, so, your, in, of, sea, loved are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words did, you, terrible, i, what, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word take 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 darkness, darkened are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases moving, you, i connect the lines.

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  • summary of The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema;
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