This is an analysis of the poem A Plea that begins with:
GOD grant me these: the strength to do
Some needed service here;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc cdcdee fgfgff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110101 01000111 010101 10111101 11011101 11100111 110101 110100101 111101 11110111 11010001 11110111 1001001 11011101 110001 100110011 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; that is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word god at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Plea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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