This is an analysis of After Prayers, Lie Cold by Clive Staples Lewis.
Arise my body, my small body, we have striven
Enough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven.…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXccee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111011101110 0111010011010 011101011111 110110011111 010111011101 100111000101 0111100101 101101011101 100101110100 111101001100 011101011101 0100110100100 110101010101 101101001111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, body
