This is an analysis of the poem 51 Psalm that begins with:
Look mercyfully down O Lord
& wash us from our sinn...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdedbfXfebgbhXebaiaiheaeceXeXXagadedXjXjbfaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111 11011 11010101 010101 11011101 110111 10110111 11101 11111110 111001 11011010 10101 11111100 001110 11111011 11101 11010111 11011 1011001 11111 11110111 111111 11110101 110101 1011110 001111 1111010 011101 1101101 110101 10010011 01111 11010111 110110 01010111 10111 0111011 101101 111101101 111111 01100101 111101 00110100 110111 1110011 011111 1011101 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1409
- Average number of words per stanza: 266
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; from, my, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word me is repeated.
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- summary of 51 Psalm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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