Using TEI to encode rhetorical devices

Dear TEI mailing list,

I am a doctoral student currently in the planning stages of future research
work, and am very interested in the possibility of using xml markup for the
purpose of encoding individual early modern works for use of rhetorical
devices, prose sentence structures, use of specific imagery and
commonplaces. The main idea is to ultimately produce a digital, interactive
counterpart to the traditional scholarly edition of a single work, rather
than to statistically analyse a large body of works.
I am trying to find information about projects that use similar encoding
methods (though not necessarily for early modern literary works), in order
to learn about what's being done and better position myself in the field.

Thanks in advance for any guidance in the matter,
Yuval