This is an analysis of the poem The Towers Of Time that begins with:
Under what withering leprous light
The very grass as hair is grey,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeefegaXaaa Xhehhhih jfjfgf akkkjjljgXkkhk hmcmbbXbflglfl Xacaffefghghgh hbXbnnmnjfmfefXahhhbijbjbibgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,8,6,14,14,14,29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100101 01011101 100100101 011101101 100101001 11111101 11111111110 100111011 1100101010 011100111 0101001000 010011101 1111111110 1011001001 110101010 110100101 100111110 01000101 1101001 10010111 0100100100100 100100111 1010010010010 1010100101 101001001010 111110111 0101001010 010110101 111110010 11001101 0010001110 11110111 111101010 011101010 011110011 110111010 01001001110 100101111 10110111100100 1001001101 1010111010010 1010100101 11111111 11110101 01110101 01110101 1011101110 0010110101 1011100111 010100101 01011010010 010100101 00111101010 111111101 1001001010110 110101111 11100101 11110001 11010111 10110011 01111111 110100101 100110010 1011100111 111011010010 001111001001 111011010110 11011001001 11011011010 010110110 111111110 010110101 110101010 11010101 1100001001 11110111 1010111101110 0111001011 1111011110 1011110111 1010001111 111000111 10001101110 100100111 1101001011 11111101 111111010 01110101 100100111 1100100100 11001101110 110101101 1001001010 010010101 110101110010 101100111 11001001010 011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 519
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, as, of, tyrannous, sun, on, more, our, world, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, and, more are repeated.
The author used the same word ah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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