This is an analysis of the poem A Prayer: Vespers that begins with:
Great God!
Behold, I lie... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb accc addd aaaeebbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 0111 011101 1010101 11 1101 101101 010011 11 1110111 110111 01000100 11 110111 110111 110101 110101 111001 111011 111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; though, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word though is repeated.
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