This is an analysis of the poem A Prayer that begins with:
Faithful before thee, Mother of God, now kneeling,
Image miraculous and merciful--of thee...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcac XcXc adad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111001110 100100110001 111111101010 1101110010001 111111011000 1011110010101 101010111010 1101010001 1001010100110 100101010101 01011111110 010101011101 1110100101110 101111011101 01110101101010 0100110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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