This is an analysis of the poem A Christmas Prayer that begins with:

Loving looks the large-eyed cow,
Loving stares the long-eared ass...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccccdabadda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1010111 1010111 11010001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 10101 1110111 1110111 11101111 1111110 1111111 1101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; make, us, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words loving, make are repeated.

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  • summary of A Christmas Prayer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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