This is an analysis of the poem Courage 2 that begins with:
Ten little brown chicks scattered and scuffled,
Under the blue-berries hiding in fear;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefghgh adaddfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110110 1001101001 10110010110 100101111 100100110100 0101011011 110110110100 1001101001 11011010010 1011001001 10111011010 1111001101 11010010110 1011111011 010010110110 11111111001 10110010110 11001001101 11011111110 11111011001 101110110110 11101111011 101101111101 11111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, us, i are repeated.
The author used the same word ten at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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