This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 9 that begins with:
O rose beyond the reach of time and of the senses
O kiss enveloped in the scarves of all the winds...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccbccadbXdXbXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010110010 110100010101 011011 111000101 10001 0100011 10101 0101 01000111 1010110 0101101 100101001 01101 01101 11110 0101111 1111110101 111110001 11101011010 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; of, you, not, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Psalm 9;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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