This is an analysis of the poem A Prayer that begins with:
Spirit and Breath of Life, whate'er Thy name!
Bear with Thy creature, Man,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaeX fgfg hchc gbgb icicXdidiebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110110011 101101 1101010101 010101 1111010101 010101 1111011101 010101 1101110001 010001 1101010101 111110 1111100101 100101 11011101001 101101 1001011111 010111 1001100101 110111 1001011101 100101 1001010101 010111 1111111111 0011001 1111010101 010101 1101011111 110101 1111010101 010111 11010011101 011101 0101000101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word give is repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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