This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 69 Part 3 that begins with:
Christ's obedience and death; or, God glorified and sinners saved.
Father, I sing thy wondrous grace,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXc deXe faaa dgdg dfdfXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011111011101 10111101 111101 11010101 110101 01011111 010101 01011101 110110 01010101 110111 11110101 111101 010101001 111111 11011101 111101 11111111 011101 11110101 1110101 10011101 111101 11010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, than are repeated.
The author used the same word his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Psalm 69 Part 3;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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