This is an analysis of the poem Our Prayer Of Thanks that begins with:
For the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening on the weeds at the river,
Our prayer of thanks. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XA aA aA bXcAXbcA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011010101101011010 1101 101001011010001100000101 1101 10111010101011111 1101 1 0111110001101 100101100101010101011010101110101011101011111 1101 1 01011101010101010111010011011101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, dead are repeated.
The author used the same words for, god at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thanks at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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