This is an analysis of the poem De Profundis Clamavi that begins with:
Have pity, You alone whom I adore
From down this black pit where my heart is sped, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba bbbb cdcXdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011101 0101111101 011011101 1111001101 1101110101 0101010101 1111111101 0101010111 1001111101 1111010101 1111010101 1100110011 1111001101 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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- summary of De Profundis Clamavi;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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