Analysis of A Child's Prayer
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
For Morn, my dome of blue,
For Meadows, green and gay,
And Birds who love the twilight of the leaves,
Let Jesus keep me joyful when I pray.
For the big Bees that hum
And hide in bells of flowers;
For the winding roads that come
To Evening’s holy door,
May Jesus bring me grateful to his arms,
And guard my innocence for evermore.
Scheme | XAXA BXBCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 11101 011101101 1101110111 101111 0101110 1010111 110101 1101110111 011100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 338 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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