This is an analysis of A Prayer by Robert Laurence Binyon.

O Thou who seekest me
Through the day's heartless hurry and uproar,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbbcacbcbddebdefffcfc
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 111101 1011010111 11001011101 111101 011101 011111 0101010101 1101011111 1101111101 111101 010101010010 11001010 110001 011101 101100110110 010111 1111101111 1101011101 1101111111 1111010101 100101 101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

who, with, and

Anaphora

the, and