This is an analysis of the poem The Doubter's Prayer that begins with:
Eternal Power, of earth and air!
Unseen, yet seen in all around,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd adad caca cdcd XcXc eded fgfg hehe dbdb bebeXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010100111 01110101 01110101 110101001 010110101 11010101 10011111 01110111 11111101 11011111 11110101 11111111 011100011 11110101 11010101 10110101 11001111 01110101 11110011 11010101 11111101 01110101 110010110 01010011 11110111 11111101 10101101 01111111 00010101 01010101 11111101 11010111 11111101 11010101 01010011 11110001 11110101 11111111 01111111 010100101 01011101 11010101 11010111 11011111 1101111 01110101 010101011 001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; me, it, i, of, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, a are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Doubter's Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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