This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Tower that begins with:

The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn
Dispatches me as though I dropped down the knell ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efcf gaga hihi hchc dede icic ajaj Xede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011110111 01011111101 001101000101 010101111101 1111111111 01100101101 1000100101 01111100011 01110111110 1111111101 1111011101 010100111101 10010001010 00110101101 01010000100110 1101010101 11011100101 01010101000101 110001111101 11110111001 1111110101 0101011001 1110011101 01101011001 0101001111 110111101010 1101011001 11010011010 1111111001 1101110111 0100011101 11110100111 11010101011 111101011 01010010101 01010100111 0100011101 11010111010 001001010011 10011110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; their, i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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