This is an analysis of the poem Le Rapide that begins with:
L'eau qui se précipite en énorme volume,
Heurtant l'angle des rocs sur leur base tremblants,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXaX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111101110 1011111110 100111111001 1011111111 11101011111 11111011101 111010101111 101010111110 0101101011010 11011011110 010110101100 11101010110 011100101110 1101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; de is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vagues is repeated).
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