This is an analysis of the poem A Prayer For My Son that begins with:
BID a strong ghost stand at the head
That my Michael may sleep sound,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccbdededffXghghijkiikijXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 1110111 1111001 1010111 11010111 11011101 1010111 0101 1011101 1111101 110101 111010111 01110111 11010101 11110001 1101 11110101 010100111 010101 11101001 01110111 10010101 10111010 0111 11110111 01001100 010101 01010101 1010111 1100111 01010101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 992
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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