This is an analysis of the poem In War-Time A Psalm Of The Heart that begins with:
Scourge us as Thou wilt, oh Lord God of Hosts;
Deal with us, Lord, according to our transgressions;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcCC dbbdCCC eee fff ggg ddddBBCCC hXiXjkellXhdddBBCCC ehh dimdj ccgil cciiXnhCCC oamcCC gfdlcC eCiahadanhgXhbhapC egfohbbbjkmhidghlpXC gpibbdXibbbibiahph XccCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,3,3,3,9,19,3,5,5,10,6,6,18,20,18,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 101101001010 111100 10010011100 1110011100 1111001010 1101010101 111011101 11001101010 111100 10010011100 1110011100 101101011010 010111010010 11010110010 10110101010 10110100010 101111000010 10110111011 1110101011 1110101011 11010101010 11010101010 01010101010 111101001010 1001001100 1001001100 11001010100 10010011100 1110011100 1111101010 011010111 0110010011 0110010111 100010110101 1001010101 01110110010 01110010001 0111010101 11010101110 1011110111 10110101010 11110101010 101101101010 1001001100 1001001100 11001010100 10010011100 1110011100 11110110110 1011011111 1011111011 01010001010 1001011101 1111011111 101110111 1101010101 11000100010 11010101010 1111010101 11010100010 0101010101 10111001010 10111101010 1111010101 01001010101 110110010010 1111010101 1111011111 111100 10010011100 1110011100 101011101 0111010101 0111010001 0100111100 10010011100 1110011100 1011111011 11110111011 1011101010 0111011101 110010011100 1110011100 0101001000010 111100 0101010101 0100010001 0101100101 1101010111 0100010001 1100100101 01010011011 0100010101 1111010101 010010100110 1101010111 0101010111 1111010111 0100010001 1101010111 1111111100 010001010010 1101110101 1101010111 11010011111 0111100101 1101010111 1101011111 1001010111 1101000101 0101001101 1101011101 0101010111 0110111101 0101001111 1001011111 0101010101 0111010111 1001111001 0101010111 1111111100 0101010101 0111010001 0101010101 1001010101 1001010011 11100101101 11010010110 11001010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 01110101010 011000101 100010101010 11010101010 1001000101 1101000101 1101010011 1111010100 1101011100 10010011100 1110011100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 160
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; victory, lord, us, and, of, in, our, her, soul, if, wilt, thou, his, their, it, tho', oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, hot, of, if, the, tho' are repeated.
The author used the same words let, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines victory, days, river, bosom, midnight, battle, enemies, beauty, glory, throne are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word victory at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase victory connects the lines.
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