This is an analysis of the poem Answered Prayers that begins with:
I prayed for riches, and achieved success;
All that I touched turned into gold. Alas! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dcdc efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1111100101 1101011111 111101 1111011111 1111011101 1101011101 111101 11111111010 11001110111 110100010010 110101 1110010111 1101110101 1111110111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, great are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, great are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Answered Prayers;
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- idea of the verse;
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