This is an analysis of the poem Fortitude that begins with:
Time, the Jester, jeers at you;
Your life's a fleeting breath;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc adadXefe fdfdgggggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 110101 11010111 011101 11010101 100101 11110011 111101 1010111 111011 11010111 110011 01001101 110001 111001001 110111 10111111 010101 11110101 111101 01011101 110101 01010101 011101 10010101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, time, he, to are repeated.
The author used the same word time at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Fortitude;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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