This is an analysis of the poem The Laurentians that begins with:

These mountains reign alone, they do not share
The transitory life of woods and streams; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101011111 0101010111 1001010001 1101100101 0111011111 1100011111 1111010111 1101111111 11011001101 1101010101 1101110111 1011100111 100110111101 1111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Laurentians;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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