This is an analysis of the poem Prayer To Persephone that begins with:
Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaAbaabXAXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000100 1011110 1010111 1111111 1010011 1111101 0010101 1010000 1010111 10010111 001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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