Analysis of Prayer



The fire and ice
Through which I sit through my prayer
Makes me a soothsayer


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 01001 1111111 11010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 74
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted by aliseema10 on July 28, 2021

Modified on March 29, 2023

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