This is an analysis of the poem Psalm Xxxv: Now Plead My Cause, Almighty God that begins with:
Now plead my cause, Almighty God,
With all the sons of strife;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cacX dada caca aeae fcfc ghgh hihi jkjk kdkd Xafa akak hkkk Xaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010101 11010101 110111 11111111 110101 1011011 10111010 11110111 110101 10010001 111111 11110111 110011 11111101 111101 11110101 011101 01000101 010101 11011101 110101 11000100 010111 10110101 0110101 01000101 110101 10111101 011101 01010101 111111 01010101 110101 11010101 000101 11110101 110101 01000101 110101 10010110 110101 11010101 111111 11111111 111111 11010101 010101 10010101 110101 11010101 110001 10110101 1101001 01110101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; their, and are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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