This is an analysis of Prayer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Lord, let us pray.
Give us the open mind, O God,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: A bcXcaa dedeff fefeff bgbghhXbbbaaA
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 1111 11010111 011101 01011110 011101 11000101 110001101 110010111 110111 11010111 111101 00010111 01110101 11011111 110101 11010111 110001 11111101 01010100 11111001 110101 11100101 011101 11001111 11010111 11011111 11010111 110101 11010101 001101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, us
Anaphora
each, give
Epiphora
mind