This is an analysis of the poem A Broken Prayer that begins with:
O Lord, my God, how long
Shall my poor heart pant for a boundless joy?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdace ffge daXagfhij Xdkglhhfmh lhbXjhmhcflhjndXm eXckXXmhoXdi mddmbeidlfadbllhhlbd demlbepddndjnfX ddcmfql dhhhbdlmmkjdblfndbXldn ahmndpelbd fird ehedhnlloelqfpll egll dpjemfnl hfldecldmlrlhohhlr mfXhXlX hmeflllbdddXbflhjllddldpmgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,9,10,17,12,20,15,7,22,10,4,16,4,8,18,7,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111 1111110101 1111010111 0100110101 00110011010 1111110101 1111010010 11010011101 1101111101 1001110101 1110110110 11001 1101000101 1100010111 01110110101 11010001001 1110100111 0100010100 11001101101 010101010 1110111001 1101010111 11010011110 1010110101 1111011101 1111011100 1111111101 1101011101 110100101010 1001010101 11111101110 1101010100 11010100011 11110001001 0111011101 1011001011 1011110111 0101111101 1111110101 0101110001 1110010101 0100010100 1101001101 1101010001 1111011101 1111110101 01010 1111000101 110011100 0100111101 100100010010 101101110 1101010110 1101110101 0100111101 1101010100 01001001101 1110010111 100010000101 1101 0111011100 1101110101 00110001010 0111010101 11010010111 11110100101 0101001101 11110101101 001101111010 010101010001 1101010001 1111 11001110111 1111111101 0011010100 1111011111 010110001001 1101011101 1111010101 1111 1011110111 1100010101 0101101101 0101111101 1111010011 1101011111 1111011111 1100111101 1001010001 1101011101 01111010101 10011011001 1011010111 1101101 111101 0111111011 1111111111 1111111111 00100110111 11011111010 11111111 1111010101 0011100101 1011110001 010100111001 0101110001 1010011111 1101010101 1101000101 1101011101 01011111010 1101010101 0101110101 1111010101 10110011001 0101011111 1011010101 111101 11011100111 01010101000 1011110001 10010001011 100100101 111111 1101100101 11110110010 0101010101 10110101100 0101010101 10010010111 1101100101 01001101101 1101010001 1111 11011001001 1001110101 0111010111 11111101001 11011101010 111100000 1101010101 1001010101 0101101101 1001100101 010010111101 1101010100 1101011011 1101001101 1101000101 10101010100 1101111111 0101011101 01001100100 1101011111 01010101101 11010101010 1001010111 1011110101 1100011101 11011100101 0101011101 11010001010 1001000101 11010010001 10101 1001001100 1011010011 11010011001 1101011101 0111010101 10010010011 1101011101 11001010101 0101010111 1011110101 11000010011 10110100100 1101011111 1111001100 1001011011 0111110101 1101010101 11010010011 11110011001 0111111101 01010101010 1110110011 010111100100 111111111 10110 0110010011 110011011010 01011101010 1101111101 11010011111 010101000110 1011010101 1111010011 01010011111 0101011101 01010101001 1111111101 11011001010 0101010111 1101111101 1001111101 1111010101 0101011000 1010000101 11110011101 111101011 1111110101 1101001111 0101011101 1001010101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 216
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; me, with, thy, and, of, my, its, thee, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
The author used the same words i, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word will at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Broken Prayer;
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