This is an analysis of the poem I Will Continue To Pray that begins with:
I can understand a desire and a wish,
To want to defeat an opponent in competition......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdc deefbXc dc eX gXb hehf XX bfXfXbbgd idX dceac XXbi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,2,2,3,4,2,9,3,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010101 01001101001010 01101010011 1111100111101 11101011 110101 110100101001 010110100110011 0011100 1111110111 110001011 10011111010 11110101101 1101 111111101 1111010 101111100 1010 11011010101 11010110111 11110010010101 00010110110110101 1100100101011001 1100010011010010 1 111111 1110010101 000110101 0101010010 0111010101101 11110011010 11011111 11011101011 001001001 01110101 11 1 10111010101 1010 0100010 000101101 0010111010 11101101 111101010001 11111111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, what, i'm are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word demands at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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