This is an analysis of the poem Lamentations Of Jeremiah V: A Prayer For Mercy that begins with:
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us:
consider, and behold our reproach. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bb ab Xa cd be dX ae ba cc cX ee ee dX dX ee df dd gc gf eeXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101011 010101101 11010001010 1100100 111101100 1101110 11110110110 1101101 1111101010 1101111 1111001000101000100 0010101 111011111 111111000 11011101 1011101011011 111110010011 0100100100 111111110 010010010 11100010010 1010010010 110111111 0100100110 11101101 101011001 101011001 0110110 10101101 11010010 101010011 11011111 1101101 1111111 101001001010100 0101010 1111100110 110101001010 110011011110 1011111 11111011111101 0111101 11111000101 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, to, have, of, thou, us are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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