This is an analysis of the poem The Black Tower that begins with:
SAY that the men of the old black tower,
Though they but feed as the goatherd feeds,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc deEF cgcghh dEEF acaciiXaEEF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101001110 111110101 110111110 11010101 111111 110110 100110101 1111001 111011 11010101 110101110 11010101 110111010 1111101 011101 1110111 100110111 1111001 111011 11010101 01011111110 1011001001 111111010 11110111 110101 111111 100101110 1111001 111011 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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.
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