The quatrains, or groups of four lines, have a constant rhyme pattern of cdcd, efef, with the last two-line couplet rhyming, gg. This rhyme system was chosen by the author to emulate the sing-song character of genuine prayer. Furthermore, the poem is largely written in iambic meter. The iambic foot has two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable and then back again. In conclusion, the meter of the poem in prayer can be described as iambic quatrains with a final couplet.