This is an analysis of the poem Courage that begins with:
Courage isn't a brilliant dash,
A daring deed in a moment's flash;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffeeff eeeeggee ggeehhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10000101 010100101 0001101001 1001001001 0000100101 1010110101 1010100101 1010110111 10000101 0010110101 0000110111 1110111101 01100110101 1010110101 111110101 1111100101 100001001 1101100101 0010100011 00100110101 0100110111 0101111101 011100100 1101101100 101100111 0000111111 0100100101 1100100111 01001001100 100110101 100110101 0010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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, it, when, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it's is repeated.
The author used the same word courage at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Courage;
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