This is an analysis of the poem The Prayer Of Nature that begins with:
Father of Light! great God of Heaven!
Hear'st thou the accents of despair?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca adad acac eaea cfcf gbgb hihi afaf jbjb bkbk bkbk chch hlhl bhbh amam X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100111010 11010001 1111010010 11011111 10011111 11110101 11100101 01010101 11110101 11010101 11010011 11010101 11010101 110000101 11011101 01010101 11010101 010101001 110001001 110101101 11010101 01110101 11110111 110001001 11010101 11010001 110100101 11010101 11111101 01010111 110100101 1110101 11111101 101100101 11111101 11010101 10110111 11010101 11110111 10111111 111101001 11010101 11010101 11010111 11010111 11111111 11110101 01011101 01110111 11011101 11011111 01010101 01010101 11111101 111100101 0101101 10010101 010100101 11111111 11110101 01111101 10111101 11110101 01011111 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, let, i, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words can, thou, let are repeated.
The author used the same words father, shall, thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Prayer Of Nature;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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