This is an analysis of the poem Trying To Pray that begins with:
This time, I have left my body behind me, crying
In its dark thorns....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111001110 0011 1 1101001 001 000010 0101111 0100010101 111 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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