This is an analysis of the poem Praying That It Stays that begins with:
There is nothing like witnessing to experience,
A people living in an environment who have been convinced......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCcd CABbd ABCed CABde ABCbff X Xc XX ggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,6,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110000100 0101001010011001 1001010001001 01101000101111 1101010010010100 101011000010010 0010101000101 1010001011100 00111111111 101010101010 1010110000100 0101001010011001 1001010001001 110100011001 0111011101010 101011000010010 0010101000101 1010001011100 011010010010010 0101011101010111 1010110000100 0101001010011001 1001010001001 10101101 01110010010011 111100001001 111110000101 1 1110101010 101001010 111100 11 1100101010101 111110100 1101010001100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Praying That It Stays;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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