This is an analysis of the poem Feigned Courage that begins with:
Horatio, of ideal courage vain,
Was flourishing in air his father's cane,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffXXggaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010001101 1100010101 1101010101 1101010111 1111100100 1111010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111110101 1111110011 11110111111 1101000101 0101010110 0101010101 1101110101 1011110101 1101110101 1001011111 0101110101 1011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 872
- Average number of words per stanza: 162
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his is repeated.
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