This is an analysis of the poem De Profundis that begins with:
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"Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XX Xbbc abba deed bddb Xffe XXXXX X a dghgchh iiihhh fffhh XfjfXhkhX X lX gLXXggL akka dkkd jXhhb XlddbdgL
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,4,4,4,4,5,1,1,7,6,5,9,1,2,7,4,4,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 100011010110110 11 1001 110101 010101 1111 10101 110110 1111001 1101 1101 111111 001111 1111 10101 111111 010101 1101 1011 111111 010101 1111 1011 110110 111101 1010 0100 1 100000110011001110110001 1011101010100101 1 1111111101010011 1 11111010000011010 11 0111001011101011 01100111011110 1 1101011110100111 100111001111011 01 11111111011111101 11110101111001 1111111110101 1 1100101011101001 11001001111111101 11011011111101 001 11101001010001011 101 1110100100111100 1011 11110111101101010 1 0100 1 101011000110000110001 10000101010011001011 11011111111010 11 101110111101110 10 1111101101001010 11011111111010 11 11011011010111011 11100011101001010 1011001000101010 10010111100111 11110001101101011 11011110010010010 10010010111010010 1001001101000101 111101110110101 1 10011001010110011 101100011111101011 1001101011011001 1011100110111110 11 110010010110111 001 11111011110110 110 11011011110001010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, their, have, and, in, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word or 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 there is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word here at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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