Analysis of Look You, I'll Go Pray
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Look you, I'll go pray,
My shame is crying,
My soul is gray and faint,
My faith is dying.
Look you, I'll go pray —
"Sweet Mary, make me clean,
Thou rainstorm of the soul,
Thou wine from worlds unseen."
| Scheme | AbcbAded |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11110 111101 11110 11111 110111 11101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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