This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 88 that begins with:
Lord God that dost me save and keep,
All day to thee I cry;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdcdbdbefXgfafadcXcXhchibXgjejefcXccicikckcchchbfXfXbXbldldlllXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 110111 11110111 011101 00110111 010101 10111101 110101 110011101 1001111 11111001 100111 10110011 100101 110111011010110 1111011 01011101 010101 11010101 100111 11100011 110101 00110101 1100111 10010110 111101 11010101 010101 11011101 111111 1101111101 11111111 11110101 111100 100100111 111111 11010101 111111 11011110 110111 11110101 100101 11101101 011101 11110101 110111 11101001 110001 01011101 110101 11000101 010100 11011111 111101 11011111 111101 11111101 111101 1101011111100 010101 101010111 110001 11110101 010011 11110111 110111 11110111 11111 10111101 110011 11111111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2646
- Average number of words per stanza: 428
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; thee, thy, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
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