Analysis of A Prayer
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1895 ( Louisville, Kentucky, ) – 1919 (Louisville, Kentucky, )
As I lie in bed,
Flat on my back;
There passes across my ceiling
An endless panorama of things—
Quick steps of gay-voiced children,
Adolescence in its wondering silences,
Maid and man on moonlit summer’s eve,
Women in the holy glow of Motherhood,
Old men gazing silently thru the twilight
Into the beyond.
O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1111 11001110 11001011 1111110 01001100100 10111101 1000101110 1110100101 01001 111111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 352 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 283 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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