This is an analysis of the poem A Prayer For The Past: All Sights And Sounds Of Day And Yea that begins with:
All sights and sounds of day and year,
All groups and forms, each leaf and gem,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec dfdf ghgh ibiX jgjg abab dddd hghg dede acac fkfk jbjb ldld mnmn gfgf jljX fhfX lclc glgl khkh lclc ebeb fcfc kgkg flfl hfhf dfdf kgkgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 11111111 11111011 010100 11110001 11110001 01111111 111101 11010111 11010101 11010111 010001 11110101 11011101 11011111 101101 11010101 00110111 11110101 110101 10110111 01110001 11111111 111011 11011111 11110011 110011101 110101 11100111 11110001 01111101 011101 11010111 11011101 11010111 010111 111100101 11011101 111100111 010101 1111111 01011111 11011111 110111 11010101 11000101 110101001 1011001 11010101 01110101 101100111 110101 101010001 010101001 11110001 110001 10011111 01010111 10111001 010101 01010101 11011101 11110001 010111 11110101 01111101 10111101 1101011 011101001 110111 11111011 100111 10011101 01111101 11111101 111101 10011111 01010101 111001001 100101 11111101 110101001 11010101 110111 11111111 11010111 11110111 110101 101100111 11010100 101100101 1010101 11011100 01110111 11010101 110101 11110101 0101011 11010101 100101 11110111 11011111 110010111 010101 11110011 110101111 10110101 111101 10111111 110101101 11001101 110011 10110101 110110100 11101101 111101 10011111 110101001 11110111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 135
- 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; and, that, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, that, and, are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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