This is an analysis of the poem Praying Everyday With Faith that begins with:
You will not pick me as your victim,
To have me believe it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC aBCC Cd ECFD ABCC ECFD gDHDXgd iDHDfHA iDHDhA aXCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,4,4,7,7,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111110 011010 0111001 0111 1101111110 011010 0111001 0111 1010001 010111 11 1010001 011 0101010101 101111110 011010 0111001 0111 11 1010001 011 0101010101 10011010 001010101 001 001010101 1100 0100111 110111101 111 11011101 001 01011111 00101 001 1100010 11111 11011101 001 01011111 00101001 1100010 11010010 01001 0111001 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; me, with, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines victim is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words done, faith, victim at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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