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Which parts of this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" bring out a gloomy and oppressive mood?
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,
had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the
evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense
of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic,
sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible...
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