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the five virtues of knighthood which Gawain hopes to embody: noble generosity, fellowship, purity, courtesy, and compassion.the five joys that Mary had of Jesus (the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Assumption), and.they represent the five senses, the five fingers,.
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As the poet explains, the five points of the star each have five meanings:.The ideals of Christian morality and knightly chivalry are brought together in Gawain’s symbolic shield. The ideals of chivalry derive from the Christian concept of morality, and the proponents of chivalry seek to promote spiritual ideals in a spiritually fallen world.The code of chivalry, in particular, shapes the values and actions of Sir Gawain and other characters in the poem. The world of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is governed by well-defined codes of behavior.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Major Themes: The Nature of Chivalry Thus the romance follows a strict rhyme scheme.On the whole, the poem takes up 2530 lines, divided into four parts and 101 stanzas. one one-stress line rhyming a (the bob) and four three-stress lines rhyming baba (the wheel). Stanzas quite elaborated : 4 stresses syllables lines (3 firsts alliterate) arranged into pairs, followed by Bob & Wheel (5 lines=1+4).The poet broke his alliterative lines into variable-length groups and ended these nominal stanzas with a rhyming section of five lines known as the bob and wheel: