This is an analysis of the poem Within Their Restricted Mental Limits that begins with:
There are more who pray and complain,
Than there are those who pray with a faith committed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXc daXXe cbXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111101 111111001010 1111111101 1011001100 101 111101100101 0101110010 111111100111 110010011010 0110101010 1100010111001 11010001 110011 1101101101 110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, who, pray, those are 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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