This is an analysis of the poem On Prayer that begins with:
You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.
All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011101 111011100101 1100110111011 0111010011 01101010001 1110010010 11010101001011 01010110010 10111110011000 1010110010001 1110101101 10111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 560
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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- summary of On Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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