This is an analysis of the poem Learning To Pray that begins with:
My inmost soul, O Lord, to thee
Leans like a growing flower... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXbcbcdadcaXaXeXeXeeeeaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1101010 10011111 011110 11110101 1101010 11110001 0101010 01110111 111101 10111100 111101 01110111 101101 01111101 111111 01110001 011101 110011001 101101 01101111 010101 11110111 010101 11110111 011111 010110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 842
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, and are repeated.
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