This is an analysis of the poem Courage that begins with:
There is a courage, a majestic thing
That springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b b a a b b a c d c d cXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001000101 10110010111 0101111101 11010010111 1001001100 0101111101 1101111111 110101111101 0101011101 0101010101 1101010101 1001110111 0101110101 1101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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- summary of Courage;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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