This is an analysis of the poem The Peaks Of Valor that begins with:
These are the peaks of valor; keeping clean your father's name,
Too brave for petty profit to risk the brand of shame,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddcc eedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101011101 1111010010101 10001010110001 111101111100001 1101010011111 01001111111111 1101010010101 110101001010101 1101010011101 111101001110101 1101010011101 11010101111101 11010101011101 001110111011101 1001111101111 10010001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, of, to, he, who, you are repeated.
The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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