This is an analysis of the poem The Beasts In The Tower that begins with:
Within the precincts of this yard,
Each in his narrow confines barred,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabb cXdXeXaaddaa ffddggggaaeehhbb hheeiieeccXacccXee jjaaeekk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,16,18,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001 10010111 110011101 110111001 110010111 01111101 00110111 01111101 01010101 1001010 11110101 01110101 110001010 010101010 11011101 11010101 01000101 11000101 11010111 110011001 11111011 101101101 10010001 01010101 11110101 110100101 01000111 11010111 11010101 01110101 11010101 01010111 001101111 100101011 110010101 01010111 11010101 01000111 01010001 01010011 01110101 110110001 01110101 11100101 01011101 01010100 10010100 11011101 01110111 11011001 01011101 110010000 11010101 11010111 01101001 01010111 101111001 11110111 11001101 110010101 0101010010 010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The author used the same word that 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 him is repeated).
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