This is an analysis of the poem The Last Prayer that begins with:
MASTER of life, the day is done;
My sun of life is sinking low;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gfgf hhgh eiei jaja baba klkd mdml hnhn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010101 11010101 110101111 11011101 11110101 11011101 10010011 11010111 11110101 01010101 01000111 11010111 11010101 11010101 10010101 11010111 11000101 01010101 11010101 11010111 01110101 01010111 11111101 01010101 11010101 11010110 01010101 11111111 11110101 10011101 01011111 11011101 11110101 01110100 11010001 11010111 11010101 11110101 01110111 11110100 110101001 10011100 11010001 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, that are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Last Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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