This is an analysis of the poem Different Ways To Pray that begins with:
There was the method of kneeling,
a fine method, if you lived in a country...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXcdXX aXceXbfcgd XgXhcceb cbaddccc ahfccgg gdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,8,8,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010 01100110010 1101 01011000111 10101111 1101011 1100110010 100100100111 10001 10011101011 1111 1001011111 1111111 111111011010 101010100 01010010011 1101110011111 101001001 011110100 110100 100101110 011001100101 1101110 111001010 11101 1110101 101111010100 1110101110 01000110 10100001 110001001 10010111 10100001010 0110100101001010 01011001011 1011110110 0110111000100 11011111011 101111011 111100111 101011 01100000101 1010001101 10100 0111010101001 111011101 010110111101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; ones 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.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase time connects the lines.
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