This is an analysis of the poem People Pray With Wishes that begins with:
People pray...
With wishes to have comfort....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABX ABC DEcF DEcF ABcfbcF ABCbfcFB ABcbFcBFcFc ABCg CgXCg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,7,8,11,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 0100110 101010111 101 0100110 101011101 110101 110101 01 11010 110101 110101 01 11010 1011 1101010 01010101 110011 010010 11 11010 101 0100110 101011101 010101 010100 11 11010 1111010100 1011 1101010 01010101 011101 010100 101 1111010100 010100 110101011 11010 01000101 101 0100110 01010011 010 01010011 010 01010011 010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
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 is repeated.
The author used the same words people, fresh, from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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