This is an analysis of the poem A Cattleman's Prayer that begins with:

Now O Lord please lend thine ear,
The prayer of the Cattleman to hear;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aaXX ccdd eeff cccc ddgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 010010001 111010111 11110101 1011111 11010101 10010111 1110110101 1111100 111111001 10010101 101011101 10101111 11011101 01010101 01011111 11111101 11010101 11111111 10010111 1111101 010111111 111100111011 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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