This is an analysis of the poem Rapids At Night that begins with:

Here at the roots of the mountains,
Between the sombre legions of cedars and tamaracks,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbXccddbdeX dd ddfXfdddAXfXbaXddeaddA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,2,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010010 0101100101100 0101001 01011111011 1001010010010 11101001010 01110 1011011010 10010010011010 11010010 1011010111010 111001 10011101101010 110111 1010111010 001011001110 110011010010 10001010010 11011010 1010 10010100 011100111010010 1110010 11101011 11010010010 1011010010 10010100 0101001011 10110100101 011011010 10010010011010 101101 1000101 10010111 10101110010 11101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, with are repeated.

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  • summary of Rapids At Night;
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