Poem Analysis of The House Of Dust: Part 04: 07: The Sun Goes Down In A Cold Pale Flare Of Light by Conrad Potter Aiken for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Dust: Part 04: 07: The Sun Goes Down In A Cold Pale Flare Of Light that begins with:

The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light.
The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east:...

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Rhyme scheme: aabab cabdb ccXeac XfXgfXg caccc fXcecddbcb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,7,5,10,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 01110011101 01110111001 11111010111 010010101101 11111100101 101001001001001 0010100101001 11011011101 01011101011 010111001 101011010111 1011101011110 10101001000111 001010010011010 1101110010010 110100100111 111111011101010 101001011111 11101001001010 1100100110101 010110101101 11101111001010 11011111101 0101011111 011100100111 0111011 11111111110 010010101 111111001111 1110100110001 111010010 111111100100 11111110010010 10110110101 100110100101 110011010111 111010100101 111100111001
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
Average number of words per stanza: 62
Amount of lines: 38
Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, them, as, we, night, good, rain, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, or, we, our are repeated.

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