Analysis of A Prayer
Claude McKay 1889 (Clarendon Parish) – 1948 (Chicago)
'Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling;
I stumble as I fare along Earth's way; keep me from falling.
Mine eyes are open but they cannot see for gloom of night:
I can no more than lift my heart to thee for inward light.
The wild and fiery passion of my youth consumes my soul;
In agony I turn to thee for truth and self-control.
For Passion and all the pleasures it can give will die the death;
But this of me eternally must live, thy borrowed breath.
'Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling;
I stumble as I fare along Earth's way; keep me from falling.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101010111110 110111011111110 11110111011111 11111111111101 010100101110111 01001111110101 110010101111101 1111010011111 100101010111110 110111011111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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