This is an analysis of the poem The Gift Of The Terek that begins with:

Through the rocks in wildest courses
Seethes the Terek grim of mood,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd aeXe Xbbb fghX Xhch fdXd chcX gbXb cigX ahXh jkfk fili ijbj hjXj fdXX kbab llllXcjbj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10010101 10100100 10010101 10101110 1010100 10101010 1001001 1001110 1111101 00101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 10111011 1010111 11101110 11001101 11111110 10101110 10101100 1011001 10101010 1100001 11111110 1001101 11011000 1110001 10101010 1010101 10101010 1000100 10001111 1010101 101011100 10010101 10111110 1010101 00111011 1010101 10001010 0011101 10101010 0010101 11111001 1110101 10111110 0111101 10101010 1011101 10111010 1010101 111001110 1010111 10101011 0011101 10111010 10101001 11100010 0010111 00110010 1110101 10100010 1110110 10101011 0010111 100001010 1010101 10101110 10101010 10110110 10100010 10101110 10110101 10101110 0100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; his is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word see is repeated.

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

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

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