Analysis of Pray
Elvis Moonze 1988 (Lusaka)
When my future becomes bleak,
And I have no one with whom to speak
Your divine intervention I seek.
And so I pray.
When my strength gives in in the middle of a fight
And I am too weak to take flight
I call upon you to restore my might
That is why I pray
And when my season of harvest is at hand
And the wealth accumulated is like sand
Lest I forget the giver of all that is grand
Remind me to pray
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110011 011111111 10101011 0111 111100010101 01111111 1101110111 11111 01110110111 0010100111 110101011111 01111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 397 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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