This is an analysis of the poem Prayer that begins with:
God, I need a job because I need money.
Here the world is, enjoyable with whiskey, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcbdbeeXXdbbXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011110 10100100010 101001011 1011110111 11111111 01011111 11101111 11110011100 111101111 1110111011 01010101 01000011100 111111111 1001010011 01111111 111111010111 0101110111 1101011100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 728
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, me, and are repeated.
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