This is an analysis of A Prayer by Anne Brontë.

My God (oh, let me call Thee mine,
Weak, wretched sinner though I be),…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcX dedeXbcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11111111 11010110 110011101 11011101 11010111 01011001 01110001 11000101 11011101 11111101 11110101 11111100 11111101 11011101 11111100 11101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

my, i

Anaphora

my, i