This is an analysis of the poem The Caucas that begins with:
The Caucas lies before my feet! I stand where
Glaciers gleam, beside a precipice rock-ribbed;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacc dccdXe fffffX XXcbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111111 10101010011 110111011101 10111101001 11111110110 011010100110 01101111101 10110110010 010010110110 11001111101 110010110010 11110001010 10110110010 110010110011 110100110011 110100110010 110010110110 110110010010 01101111001 111010110010 011010010010 01101001001 11011011001 1100101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, there, it 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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