This is an analysis of the poem Courtesy that begins with:
Of Courtesy, it is much less
Than Courage of Heart or Holiness,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc dddd Xeee ddbc ffff ffbcXeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000011 110011100 10110101 1010100100 111001001 11110011 11110101 11001001 0101000 01001010 0101010 01111101 01101100 110101011 11110111 110100100 110101001 01010101 11011111 11001001 01011101 11010101 11111111 01010100 11111101 11110111 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Courtesy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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