This is an analysis of the poem As We Prayed that begins with:
Often as we watched her there
From our lips there fell this prayer, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbX cccbbb aaaddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 0111101 1110101 1110001 1010001 10011010 1010111 1010101 0010101 1111101 1010101 1111101 1010101 1010101 1010001 1110101 1111101 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; her, ours are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ours is repeated.
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