This is an analysis of the poem Psalm V that begins with:
Lord, to my words incline thine ear,
My meditation weigh:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb Xdbd ebeb fafa fggg acXc chch Xibi abab jfjf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 110101 11111001 110111 10011111 100101 0111011 110111 1101110 100101 11011101 111011 11110101 110111 01010111 100111 101010011 010111 10111101 010101 11101100 010111 10111101 101101 11001011 111101 11110100 1100111 01011111 110101 0101010 110101 01011100 110101 11111101 001101 11111101 010111 11111101 011100 11110101 101101 01010100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, their, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, thou, their are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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