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

LET us leave our island woods grown dim and blue;
O’er the waters creeping the pearl dust of the eve ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gege hchc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111011111 101010011001 101000111001 011011111 10111110101 10100011101 11101010111 111011001 100011010101 10101110011 10101010101 110010101 10111110111 010111010101 11100010111 11011111 11101011111 10100110101 00110011111 101100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , that are repeated.

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