This is an analysis of the poem Listen, Lord: A Prayer that begins with:
O Lord, we come this morning
Knee-bowed and body-bent... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadeafffea dggacaggX hahgabfbifaeXfdjfj hXhfeibcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,18,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 111101 011101 11010 1110111 111011010 11010 1101000110 0110011 11101010010 1111100100010 110010 11101111010 1010100101 11011101 111010 11111 110010 10111111 11010101 1111001111 11110101 110101010 1110010011 111100110010 111010 110100111 111111101 10100101 110111001 101010101 11010 1010010100100 111101010101 1101001010 1010010001 111001010110 01111000101010 1101110 1111 1111111010 110110110101 10110010110010 11010 1111011100101 101101010111 1010110101 011111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 443
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, of, ride, him, and, his, when, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hell is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sinners connects the lines.
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