This is an analysis of A Prayer For The King's Majesty by Edith Nesbit.
22nd January, 1901.
THE Queen is dead. God save the King,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abbccdddXedfgghhaeAciiccjkljlkcckmmffeejjnn klleeajjaX AkhakhA ccbbooA dddA AahXheeAXccckcA
- Stanza lengths: 1,43,10,7,7,4,15,
- Metre: 110101 01011101 0001001 11010100001 0101010111 0100010101 1100110101 1101011001 0111001111 1101011000 11011101001 0111011101 0111010101 10010101001 1111011101 1111011111 1111011101 11011011101 01001010101 1101 0101010001 0100010111 0011001101 0100010101 1101001111 001010011101 010111 010111 0111010011 110111 0111 1011010101 1101101 0110110011 11010100010 1111010 0111000101 111101 111101 101101 1111 1110110001 1100110101 1111010111 110111 1111 1110011101 110011101001 111011 1111110100 0101010111 1111101111 11110010011 1101 01011101 011111 0101010101 0101010100 01010010101 0100110101 1101 011111 110100 1001011 1010101 0111111 110101 1101 11110000101 10111110101 1011000101 1101 01011101 00110111101 10011111101 1100111100 0011001 1110010101 11001011101 1101 1111110101 0101011101 0111110101 0101 110011 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 87
Repeated words/phrases
to, his, how, of, her, prayer, from, and, our, tears
Anaphora
o, a, the, when, from, of, god
