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

Having an aged hate of height
I forced myself to climb the Tower,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaa cXcdXX ceceff dgdgXX gXgbXX efefhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 111101010 111100101 011101010 111101010 101111010 11010111 11011000 11110101 11010111 101111101 1101100 101000101 11011111 11010101 11011101 111100001 11111101 101010101 010110011 10110101 11010011 110001100 1000101010 101100111 111111010 11111111 110101010 11110001 11111100100 11111101 110100110 111101011 010101010 111111010 1001010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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  • central theme;
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