This is an analysis of the poem Prayer that begins with:
I ASK good things that I detest,
With speeches fair;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb acXc cdcdXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 0101 11111111 1111 11111111 1101 01111011 1111 11010011 1011 11110110 1111 11111101 1101 111001110 1111 11110101 1111 11100111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same words i, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word prayer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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