This is an analysis of the poem Ben Boyd's Tower that begins with:

Ben Boyd's Tower is watching—
Watching o’er the sea;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abAbBCdC ceee afAf ghgh BCiC ifdf Xbcb fjhjfcic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010 10101 1110010 1011 111101 1111010 1111111 11110 1110110 10101 101010 00101 1110010 10101 1110010 1010011 111011 10101 101111 10001 111101 1111010 11111101 11110 101101010 10101 1111011 00111 111010 10111 11011110 10101 110011 10001 111010 10101 0100011 101010 1111011 01110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, know are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tower is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase watching connects the lines.

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