This is an analysis of A Prayer In Darkness by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
This much, O heaven—if I should brood or rave,
Pity me not; but let the world be fed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba bccb deed bXXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01110011111 1011110101 1011001111 1101110111 0111010111 1011011101 0111110101 0101000101 11011101110 0110100101 1111010101 11010111010 1101110111 10110101100 11110101001 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
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