This is an analysis of the poem The Evening Prayer that begins with:
Little girlie, kneeling there,
Speaking low your evening prayer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXbccXbddXaeefa AaggccXghhXaggfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 0110101 0111101 0111111 1011101 00111010 11101011 1111111 1111101 11101110 1111101 1011111 0010101 100111110 1011101 1010101 1011101 10101011 1010011 1011011 1110111 01111110 1101101 0010111 1110101 11101110 0010101 1010111 11101001 01101110 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; your, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word little 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 you connects the lines.
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- summary of The Evening Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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