This is an analysis of the poem The Torrent that begins with:
OH torrent, roaring in thy giant fall,
And thund'ring grandly o'er th' opposing blocks,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc Xdeddfdff gagaaXadd ghghhehXe cicXieXee jcjccdcdd eeeiiiiii kekeececc lblbbmemm lelebebee ejejjnjnn mjmjjkjkkXgagaajajj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001101 110101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101000101 1001010111 0101110101 11111100101 101101110101 1101010111 0111011101 10110111110 1011010101 1100011101 1101110111 1101110101 1001011111 1001011001101 1111000101 11001111101 11010010111 11101010111 1101011111 1111011110 11110111001 1111011111 111101110001 11010101111 1101111101 1111010101 1101101101 1101010101 0101011111 1101101111 1110010110 110101010101 1100110111 1101010111 1111110111 1101011100 11110100101 011010011 01011101100 1101000101 110101010100 10111110101 10010010101 01010011001 11110110110 0011110111 1101010110 0101000101 1101111101 110101110101 1101110001 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 11111101011 0011011111 1111101101 1101000101 010101011101 1001110011 1000010001 0101011101 10110011101 1111110100 1101011101 11011100101 11001000101 110101110111 1110010111 1101001101 1100110111 1111010101 0111010101 1011110101 1001010101 1101011111 100011010101 1101010111 1111111111 011100111 1101010101 00101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101100101 011101110101 1011110101 1101010101 0101010100 1011000101 0110011111 0111010101 0101000101 1111111101 010101010101 1101110101 1001011001 1011110101 1011010101 1001000101 0101101111 0101000101 1111111111 010001010101 1101100101 0101110101 1111010101 01010100111 0101101101 10001111111 11001010111 1101010111 100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 117
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; with, what, and, on, that, thy, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, hence, a are repeated.
The author used the same words oh, roll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Torrent;
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