This is an analysis of the poem Prayer To Go To Paradise With The Asses that begins with:
O God, when You send for me, let it be
Upon some festal day of dusty roads....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXXadbbbb dXXXbdddbcbcdeebbfggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111100 0111010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101111111 1011110111 0111010111 111010100101 1101110111 1011110101 1111111011 0101011101 1101011011 1111011111 1011011101 1101011100 1111011101 1111010111 1111010101 1111010111 11010111010 1111110101 1101110101 1001111101 0111000101 1101111101 1101110101 1001010101 1111101101 0111010101 01001010100 0101110100 0011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 705
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, those, their, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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