This is an analysis of the poem Woman Of Canaan that begins with:
Prayer an answer will obtain,
Though the Lord awhile delay;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc cdcd dede fdfd bdbd dgdgXebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1110101 11100010 1111101 1111001 1100101 1010111 1111101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1100101 1110101 1010111 1110111 11111001 0011101 1010101 1011111 0011101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1111101 1010111 1110111 1111101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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