This is an analysis of the poem Courage, Courage, Courage! that begins with:
When the burden grows heavy, and rough is the way,
When you falter and slip, and it isn't your day, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeee ffddccXddeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101011011001 111011100011 1111010010010 1110111111010 001101111101 101111011011 11011001001 01001011101 101001111001 11101111101 11111011011 111001111101 111111011011 101101011101 11011011001 111101011101 101011001111 0010101011001 101001011101 111011101101 111001111001 111001001101 11101011001 11101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, when, your, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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