This is an analysis of An Informal Prayer -- The Prayer Of Cyrus Brown by Sam Walter Foss.
“The proper way for a man to pray”
said Deacon Lemuel Keyes,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb abbb Xccc adcd XeXeeccc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,8,
- Metre: 010110101 110101 101010101 010101 11110101 1100101 010101001 1111001 11111101 110011 01110111 1110001 01010110 010101 0110100101 11001 1111110101 111101 01110101 110101 111011111 111101 010011101 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
no, i, prayer
