This is an analysis of the poem Voiceless Prayer that begins with:
All their childish sports were over,
All their mimic work was done,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbddXd ddddaebe fddddgeg dXdXbcfX XXbXdbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1110111 11111011 1110111 10011110 1011101 10111110 1011101 10101110 10110111 01101010 10101001 10101010 11101001 10101010 1010101 100111010 100000111 10101110 00111001 11101010 0010001 001110010 0110101 100111010 00101010 01101010 1111101 11101110 1010111 10001010 1010100 11101010 11101000 11101010 0011101 11101110 11010101 10111011 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, wherefore are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Voiceless Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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