This is an analysis of the poem A Prayer that begins with:
O vermeil mouth that I have kissed in vain,
O hair that was a golden web of pain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab cdb eecXaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111101 1111010101 100111 1111110101 0111111100 111101 11110111110 11110111010 010101 1101010101 0101010101 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, the are repeated.
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- summary of A Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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