This is an analysis of the poem The Brook Leaps Riotous that begins with:

The brook leaps riotous with its life just found,
That freshets from the mountain rains have fed, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa bbcbbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01110000111 1100010111 1101000101 1101000101 0110011011 110011000101 1111010111 1001001101 1111011111 1011010101 11010111001 11101011111 10111011101 10110010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; its is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word has is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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