This is an analysis of the poem The Conversation Of Prayer that begins with:
The conversation of prayers about to be said
By the child going to bed and the man on the stairs...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcda baabb cXAec cedXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010100101001 1011001101101 11001010011 0111001001101 101010111001 100110111001 00010010011 001101101101 01010010011 101001110111 00011101111 101101101010 010100101001 1101101101101 011111010111 0010001010011 101110011101 11001111011 11011110101 10110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, be, and are repeated.
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