This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 83 that begins with:
Be not thou silent now at length
O God hold not thy peace,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXXdXXeeeXXdfddcdcgXXXhfhfdfdXdiXidddddhdacdcdgXghXbeXegegjiji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 111111 11111101 111111 111100111 1111001000 11111111 011111 011101011000 1111011 0001110110001 1111111000 11110111 111100 11011101 010100 11010111110 111101 01011111 101101 01010101 01010 10000101 100101 101101010 110100 01001101 110111 00110101 110101 1111111 010101 10010101 110101 01001101 110101 11010101 101011 110111110 110101 11110101 111101 11011001 111101 11011111 111111 11010101 110100110011 11110101 110101 10110101 110001 11111110 110101 0101110110 110101 10111001 101101 11111101111 11011111 01110100 1011110 10010111 0111010 11111111 100001 10111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2567
- Average number of words per stanza: 409
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; not, and, of, to, them, thy, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, as are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ever connects the lines.
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