This is an analysis of the poem Raleigh’s Cell In The Tower that begins with:
HERE writ was the World's History by his hand
Whose steps knew all the earth; albeit his world... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaaaXabXccXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11101100101 11110101001 01110101110 1101010111 0101100101 1101011111 011011101110 0101010101 11110101001 0101011101 0101010111 0101010101 11101110001 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; his is repeated.
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