This is an analysis of the poem Between The Rapids that begins with:
The point is turned; the twilight shadow fills
The wheeling stream, the soft receding shore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdee babafgfghh ihihghghjj XXkXbibigg bgbghdhdhh leleehehkXXihihhehedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011111 0101010101 1111010101 11010101001 1101111111 0111110101 0111010101 11110111101 1111011101 1101011111 1111111111 0101010101 0101010111 01001010001 0101010101 00110010111 11011101001 0111110101 1111010101 0111111101 0101010101 11001100101 1011010111 1011011101 1010110111 1101110101 1111111101 11010011101 0101110101 1111010111 110111010 1101011101 0101111101 1111111110 1011100111 1111011101 1111010101 1101110111 1111111101 1111001001001 0111100101 0111011101 1110101001 0101010111 111111000101 1111111110 1011111101 0101110101 1110110101 1101110111 10110010111 01001010111 1101011101 01010000101 11111100101 1111111111 1111110101 0111011101 01101110111 011101110 1111010001 1111110101 1111111101 10101001111 1111010101 1101011101 1011011101 1101111101 11001011101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, same, them, far, from, i, for, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
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