Analysis of Prayer for Lightning
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
My corn is green with red tassels,
I am praying to the lightning to ripen my corn,
I am praying to the thunder which carries the lightning.
Corn is sweet where lightning has fallen.
I pray to the six-coloured clouds.
| Scheme | ABCDA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 1111111 1110101011011 11101010110010 111110110 11101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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