This is an analysis of the poem Prayer that begins with:
Whatever a man pray for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces
to this: 'Great God, grant that twice two be not four.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bcX X XcdX X dX Xba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,1,4,1,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011111101001001010 00111111011 10101001101001001 001010001010001000100 10101010010010100 11100100101001111101 10001001010 11 101001 0100 1010110100101000 111100111110101 11001100 1011011001001011110 01010101011111110 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; to, prayer, and are repeated.
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- summary of Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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