This is an analysis of the poem Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray that begins with:
Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray,
But bid for, Patience is! Patience who asks... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011101 1111001011 1111100101 0101110101 1101011101 11100110101 11001110111 10111010111 1111110101 01010100101 011111101101 1101111110 010100010101 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; patience is repeated.
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