This is an analysis of the poem A Child's Evening Prayer that begins with:
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
God grant me grace my prayers to say:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11111101 11011101 011111001 11011101 111111001 11111101 00110111 11011101 01010101 111111110 111101110 11110101 11001101 11011111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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