Analysis of Courage
George Chapman 1559 (Hitchin) – 1634
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind
Even till his sailyards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship runs on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air;
There is no danger to a man that knows
What life and death is, - there is no law
Exceeds his knowledge: neither is it lawful
That he should stoop to any other law.
| Scheme | XXXX XXAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111111 11111110101 1011110111 0111110111 1111000111 1111010111 110111111 01110101110 1111110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 400 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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