This is an analysis of the poem The Hour Of Prayer that begins with:

Child, amidst the flowers at play,
While the red light fades away;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbaA ccddeeaAXddddaaaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011 1011101 1001101 10100100 1010101 1110101 11101100 1011101 10000101 1011111 1010101 0010011 1001101 1111101 1010101 1011101 10010101 1011101 10100101 10101001 1110111 1011101 10110111 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; ye is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word knee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Hour Of Prayer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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