The Tower by William Butler Yeats
Published 1928 · 164 pages · 9,992 words · about 1 hour at an average pace · Poetry
How hard is The Tower to read?
The Tower scores 56 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
- Contemporary prose.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear style.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Urban life, class.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- London tower block.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Tower, community.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Social observation.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Stories resolve.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Multiple viewpoints.
How The Tower is regarded
The Tower holds a literary regard score of 90 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.