This is an analysis of the poem A Prayer that begins with:
My God (oh, let me call Thee mine,
Weak, wretched sinner though I be),... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcX dedeXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11010110 110011101 11011101 11010111 01011001 01110001 11000101 11011101 11111101 11110101 11111100 11111101 11011101 11111100 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i are 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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- summary of A Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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