This is an analysis of the poem Just Pray that begins with:
Giant in your eyes...
To you that's how I want to appear....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaadcbcccc XedfghXXeXege cXedXfee gdX heebagX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,8,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 011111001 1101110 11010111 1010111 111 0110101 11111 01 101101 11 011110 1110111 11011 1111 110110 1001010 0100110 01011010 01101 01 111101 10111101 0111 111110 11101 1111 1111 011001 01101010 1100 1001 11100 11 101 110 11 1111101011 101 10111101 101010111 1 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; to, you, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Just Pray;
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