This is an analysis of Learning To Pray by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
My inmost soul, O Lord, to thee
Leans like a growing flower…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbXbcbcdadcaXaXeXeXeeeeaXa
- Stanza lengths: 28,
- Metre: 11011101 1101010 10011111 011110 11110101 1101010 11110001 0101010 01110111 111101 10111100 111101 01110111 101101 01111101 111111 01110001 011101 110011001 101101 01101111 010101 11110111 010101 11110111 011111 010110111 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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