This is an analysis of the poem Westminster Tower that begins with:
In the seagirt land of the North,
By the endless ebb and flow of the streaming tide,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbccca addddbbbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 00101001 101011100101 010110100101 10010010111 10100101001001 110110110001101 101001011001101 10100111 10101111 010110110101 10101011001001 111111010010011 101101110101 0100111011111 11110100100111 0010110110101 10011101110101 00101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines forth is repeated).
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