This is an analysis of the poem If You Could Pray Frustrations Away that begins with:
If you could pray frustrations away...
Would you try it? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcBaBcBD EBcBDBcBFD GBHII EBcBDBcBFD GBHIIiiXABDad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,5,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101001 1110 1 1110 111111011 1110 1 1110 1111001 01110111 1110 1 1110 1111001100 1110 1 1110 111 1001 10101110001 11 1010101010010 0111010 0010101001010 01110111 1110 1 1110 1111001100 1110 1 1110 111 1001 10101110001 11 1010101010010 0111010 0010101001010 11001010 0010111010 011101001 1110 1111001 011100 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word stars at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- Analysis of One Seeking Confidence
