Psaume Vi by Jean Antoine de Baif: poem analysis

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

Sire, en ton courroux ne me viens convaincre du forfait :
Non ne me viens châtier en ta bouillante fureur....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110111110010 111111111010 1000110111110 1011011111 1111111100110101 111110101 110111101110 10110111110 1011100111100 11101101011 1111011111011 11100110111 110101110110 1111001011111 11001111100100 10100011111100 10101000111110 101010111010 1101111100110 111010110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, la, de, s, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word car is repeated.

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