Analysis of Courage
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
There is a courage, a majestic thing
That springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown,
Minerva-like, and dares all dangers known,
And all the threatening future yet may bring;
Crowned with the helmet of great suffering;
Serene with that grand strength by martyrs shown,
When at the stake they die and make no moan,
And even as the flames leap up are heard to sing:
A courage so sublime and unafraid,
It wears its sorrows like a coat of mail;
And Fate, the archer, passes by dismayed,
Knowing his best barbed arrows needs must fail
To pierce a soul so armored and arrayed
That Death himself might look on it and quail.
Scheme | A B B A A B B A C D C D C D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101000101 1111011111 0101011101 01010010111 1101011100 0111111101 1101110111 010101111111 010101001 1111010111 0101010101 1011110111 1101110001 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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