This is an analysis of the poem As You Pray Throughout The Day that begins with:
Enjoy your day.
And the plans you have for it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBBBX ABBBBX ABAXABAAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 1011110 11100101 001101011 101001010 100111000 0111 1011110 11100101 001101011 101001010 100111000 0111 1011110 1110101 0111 1011110 1110101 1110101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, you, day are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
The author used the same word enjoy 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 day is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word unresisted at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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