This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 7 that begins with:
God's care of his people.
My trust is in my heav'nly Friend,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbb cdcd efef cgcg baba g hehe geXe eeee ibib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010 11001101 110111 11110101 011111 01001101 110101 11010101 1110001 011100101 110111 11111101 111101 01010101 111101 11110101 111101 01111111 1111001 01010101 0100111 1 11011101 010001 11010101 010001 11011101 1001101 01010110 010101 111101001 110111 11111101 111111 11010101 110101 01111101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i, he are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Psalm 7;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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