This is an analysis of the poem The Quality Of Courage that begins with:

Black trees against an orange sky,
Trees that the wind shook terribly, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddecff egghghdgdijccggffbaff jkhhelleefcggdXffjjeeiikcmn nffhheeooiihdd ahjjkk aanaffnnkkffffkkXklaba eeeecckppffeemmllebefeahchcdccffXgfmmmgakadfXddggg ggg cgabicidd ghcXXgic gc abffffaabaXccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,21,27,14,6,22,50,3,9,8,2,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011101 11011100 10110101 10011101 10111101 01110101 01011101 10011011 11011101 11011101 111111001 11100100 111111110 111101101 011100010 0101001010 11100101 110111110 11110101 010101010 11000111 11011111 11011101 1010001 11110101 11010111 01000100 11000101 1101111 10111101 1101011110 11010111 0101010010 10101010 000010101 01110111 11011101 101010101 00110101 11011101 010010111 010101110 111101010 1100100010 110101010 01111011 01110111 010111010 111111110 11110111 01010111 11010101 01111101 11010001 11111101 10011111 11110101 11110111 11011101 01010101 011111110 111101010 11011111 11110111 11111111 11110101 11010111 010011001 111111110 11110111 10110111 10110101 011110110 01011101 11111101 01010101 11010101 11011111 110101001 01110111 10011011 01010011 11111111 11010101 10011101 00110101 01010011 10111101 11010101 11011111 10111111 11011101 01011101 010111000 01010001 11110 111 10110100 0101101001 11111111 01011111 11010101 111101001 11111101 01110101 11011100 10111011 11010101 11111110 11110100 01010101 11010101 11011011 11111111 11010101 11111111 11011101 01011100 11110101 110111 11 11111111 110011110 01110101 1111010010 10010111 1101 1101 01010111 11111110 11011111 111101110 011111001 11110101 11010101 11111100 11111111 11011111 11111111 01011101 11011101 11110111 11111111 01010100 010010011 11110101 11110101 01110101 11110101 11011111 10010101 11111101 11110001 11101101 11111101 11111100 11111101 11111101 11110111 01010101 11111111 10010101 110 11111 1010111000 1111111 11 1101 1111 11011101 11110001 11110101 10010100 11010101 01100101 01010111 1101001 11001111 11110111 11111100 01010101 00111111 110101111 110101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; like, and, i, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, somewhere are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in, pain, road are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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