This is an analysis of the poem Prayer that begins with:
White, O white face—
from disenchanted days ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbbaXbcdeadeXcceXXefeXXfee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 000101 100111 11001 110111 1101 1001110 11110010 01111 10010 10101 11010 10101 11110011 0111100111 101 11010010 011101 010111 11010 10111 101101 01110 10111 1011010101 011101 1100010100 1111011 001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 832
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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