This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 86 that begins with:
Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline,
O hear me I thee pray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcdeaXafbgbgcXcXfcfcbfbfchchebebececciciagagdedecjXjkbkbcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 111111 11111111 011101 01111111111010 11110101001 11110111101 110111 10111101 1111110 11011101 111111 11101111 010101 11010101 001111 10110001 111001 01010101 110100 10010101 011111 11111111 110111 11010101 111101 01110111 1011001 01011111 111111 01010111 11011 11111101 111111 10110101 100101 11111111 101101 01111111 110101 10111111 110101 01111101 111101 111100011 111111 10010111 010101 11010111 1100111 01111011 110111 11110111 101101 100101110 110011 11011111 111101 10110111 111111 11000101 111111 10010111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2245
- Average number of words per stanza: 397
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; thou, to, art, thy, most, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thee, and are repeated.
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- summary of Psalm 86;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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