This is an analysis of Courtesy by Hilaire Belloc.

Of Courtesy, it is much less
Than Courage of Heart or Holiness,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabc dddd Xeee ddbc ffff ffbcXeee
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,8,
  • Metre: 01000011 110011100 10110101 1010100100 111001001 11110011 11110101 11001001 0101000 01001010 0101010 01111101 01101100 110101011 11110111 110100100 110101001 01010101 11011111 11001001 01011101 11010101 11111111 01010100 11111101 11110111 110101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

of, he, her

Anaphora

the