This is an analysis of the poem The Tower Of Doctrine - (From The History Of Graunde Amoure) that begins with:

I loked about, and sawe a craggy roche
Farre in the west, neare to the element; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXabX XXXXcdX XXXXXee ffXXXXX XcXccXb aXaXXgg XXXXfaa XXXXXaX agaXgXc fdfdXXX bXbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001110101 1001100100 1111110010 010111100 01010010100 101100100110 10110111000 110100110 1001010011 1110100100 0110011001 1101010101 01001001010 1011001100 1001011111 110100110 00101110010 1011011010 110110010 100010101010 10110101010 01010010001 0111100111 0110110110 010100101110 110100110100 100111001 1001001110 0111010010 01111101111 0001101110 01111000101 100111111 10011010011 11010001100 11111100011 1111001010 111011101 01110100110 1101011100 11111101001 1110110111 011111100 00010111111 1101010010 01010011000 101101001 1101110111 11010011011 011111011 101101101110 10110010011 11110100010 100111101 10110101001 01010111101 110110111 1100000101 0101011001 010011001010 100110101 011101101 1001010101 0111010101 01010110 1010101100101 0101010100 1101001100 011101100 01010001010 11010011010 001010010100 10101110100 01001011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, of, with, to, she are repeated.

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

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