This is an analysis of the poem The Rapid that begins with:
ALL peacefully gliding,
The waters dividing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbaCdXX aabeebCdXX aabaaXbcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010 010010 01001011001 010110 010110 01011001011 1010101100100 1011101001 110100100100 1001011001 110010 011010 11101101011 010010 110100 11011001001 1010101100100 1001001101 111100100100 11011101001 110110 110110 11001011001 11010 1100110 11011001001 1110101100100 1011001001 101101000100 10011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Rapid;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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