This is an analysis of the poem 'A Prayer' that begins with:
Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a X b b X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111100101000110111110101110010010100101 1110100110111101001010111110101000101010110111110110101100101000100 11010010011000101011101110011010010 10111111111001111110011 111100111110101000101111110110111 111100100011110011 1101110111111111010011101010101 111101001011111101100100111110010111111010011011110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 155 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 30
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, of, and, i, my, may, that, not, for are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines myself is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word myself at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of 'A Prayer';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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