This is an analysis of the poem A Supplication that begins with:
“De profundis clamavi ad te Domine.”
BY our looks of mute despair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbX cccX dddX eaeX cccX cccX fffX gggX cXcX hhhX iiXX dddX jjjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010011010 1110101 1011101 01110101 1100 10110110 10101110 10111110 1100 1110001 1011101 11010101 1100 1000111 01000100 1111011 1100 11111010 11111010 10111010 1100 10101110 01011110 11111010 1100 1000011 1110111 11111011 1100 1001111 1111111 1011111 1100 11101110 10101010 10101110 1100 1011101 1011100 1110101 1100 11111001 11101001 1111101 1100 1111101 0110101 1011101 1100 10111110 11110010 110011010 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word eleison at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Supplication;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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