This is an analysis of the poem There Is No Deed I Would Not Dare that begins with:

There is no deed I would not dare,
Unloving, but to gain your smile,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dedefdXd ghghffff ijijkhkh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 10010111 111101111 110000101 01111101 11110101 11111111 011100100 10111111 011111101 01110001 111111111 11110111 11111101 110010100 01110101 11111111 110111001 01010111 010110111 110101001 110101101 11010101 01011101 011111001 10011111 11001111 10010101 11011101 00110011 11010011 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; s, i, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of There Is No Deed I Would Not Dare;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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