Psaume V by Jean Antoine de Baif: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Psaume V that begins with:

Prete l'oreille à ma complainte, Seigneur Dieu :
Veuilles entendre le murmure de ma pensée....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX abX XXX XaX XXX bXX XXX XXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101 10010010011 11011111111110 010101110110 010101001100 1111100110100 111111011101 1110011111111 101111011110110 111011111100 11100110110 110001101101011 0100101110 101110100011 111111100101011 11001101010 0111100110 101111110111110 0110101111 111111100110 11011100101011 1100111110 0101101010 11000101011101 111011101 110101111 11100110110110 11111111101 1111111011 111101101110 1101101111100 0110110101100 10100110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ma, les, de, le, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, si, jette are repeated.

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  • summary of Psaume V;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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