This is an analysis of the poem Through My Ardent Prayers that begins with:

With a discipline kept in practice.
And assisted through my ardent prayers....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefb bdfd fXcbfg gcabc BHbb XXedbXdXBH
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,6,5,4,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001001010 101011101 11101010010 111011010 10111 111110001 1101010 110100111 11101010 01011 111001 101010100 010101101 101101 0110101010 11101 1111101 1111111101 011010 0100101101001 1111011 101010101 0011101 110101110 001110110 0010111101 111101111 1111100011 111001001 101 00111010 11111 010001 0011101 110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of Through My Ardent Prayers;
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