This is an analysis of the poem Labor Is Prayer that begins with:
LABORARE est orare:
We, black-visaged sons of toil, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaababaXa cdXdedfdXd daaaegXXXg XhdhcefeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000110 11100101 00111010 1010001 00101011 1010101 10111010 1011111 1000110 1111110 11111010 1011111 101011010 1010101 11111111 10011101 10101010 10101011 1000110 1011101 11101010 1010101 10101010 1010111 101000010 1010001 11111010 1110101 1000110 1110101 1000110 1010101 11101011 1110101 11100110 11100111 11111010 1110101 1000110 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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