This is an analysis of the poem Prayer that begins with:
You talk o' prayer an' such -
Well, I jest don't know how;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededfgfg cbcbgbgb hchcfifi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111111 111111 010101 111111 111101 110101 0111 010101 111101 010111 111101 011101 011101 010111 0101 011101 110001 110001 111111 011110 010101 110001 1111 011101 100111 111101 111111 110111 111001 110111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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- summary of Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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