This is an analysis of the poem My Psalm that begins with:
I mourn no more my vanished years
Beneath a tender rain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede dXde fefe fbfb gbgb afaf dhdh ifif adad dgdg jdjd fkfk keXe lmlmXkfkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 010101 11010111 110101 01111101 110111 01001111 110001 11010101 110111 11010011 010111 11110101 010111 01010011 011101 11110111 010101 01011101 110111 010011101 0101001 110001001 110101 11011101 1101010 10110001 1101010 01111101 011101 11110101 110101 11110111 011101 010101101 110111 11011101 011001 11111101 110101 11111101 011001 11010111 111111 01110101 111101 110001111 0100111 11110100 010101 100010111 100100 11110101 110001 01110111 010101 11110111 1100111 11010100 010101 11010101 110001 11010001 110001 11011101 110111 11010011 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, of, to, all, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Psalm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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