This is an analysis of A Prayer: Vespers by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

Great God!
Behold, I lie…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbb accc addd aaaeebbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11 0111 011101 1010101 11 1101 101101 010011 11 1110111 110111 01000100 11 110111 110111 110101 110101 111001 111011 111111 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

though, or

Anaphora

though