This is an analysis of the poem Praise And Prayer that begins with:
DOUBT spake no word in me as there I kneeled.
Loathing, I could not praise: I could not thank ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbaabcdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110111110 1011111111 1101010111 1111010101 1101001101 0101011111 0001010111 1111011101 0101111111 0011010101 1101010110 1111101101 0111010111 10110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i, not, and are repeated.
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