This is an analysis of the poem To God The Father that begins with:

To the little, pitiful God I make my prayer,
The God with the long grey beard... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddXebfgddafhXDbX gXXecfeDhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010011111 0100111 110110001010 11101100101111 010 10111111110 10110 10010011010011 1 11001111101 10010 01110110010 1111101111011 100 010101111 1001100101100 101111010 1101111 11101011100 00100110101 1011101111 11111010 11010111101010 111001010 1110010101 111101111 101111010 110101110011 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, no, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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