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…

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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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