This is an analysis of the poem Morning Prayers that begins with:
Old people cry too much.
They walk in the morning...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbXX bbXc XXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 110010 001110 11110 11011001 111011 11111 010011 011101 10011 0010011 110101001 111111 0110011 1111011100 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Morning Prayers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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