This is an analysis of the poem A Prayer that begins with:

O Thou who seekest me
Through the day's heartless hurry and uproar,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbcacbcbddebdefffcfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 1011010111 11001011101 111101 011101 011111 0101010101 1101011111 1101111101 111101 010101010010 11001010 110001 011101 101100110110 010111 1111101111 1101011101 1101111111 1111010101 100101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 815
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; who, with, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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  • summary of A Prayer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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