This is an analysis of the poem After Prayers, Lie Cold that begins with:
Arise my body, my small body, we have striven
Enough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111011101110 0111010011010 011101011111 110110011111 010111011101 100111000101 0111100101 101101011101 100101110100 111101001100 011101011101 0100110100100 110101010101 101101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, body are repeated.
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