This is an analysis of the poem Per Pacem Ad Lucem that begins with:
I DO not ask, O Lord, that life may be
A pleasant road; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bXbD bebe baba fdfD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110 0101 1111111101 1001 111111011101 0111 1111010101 0111 1111011111 1110 1111011111 1101 1111111111 11001 1101011111 0101 1111110101 1101 1001010111 1101 1011011101 1101 1111101111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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