God Full Of Mercy by Yehuda Amichai: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem God Full Of Mercy that begins with:

God-Full-of-Mercy, the prayer for the dead.
If God was not full of mercy,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaCdddbXXdXX Xb dXbaC X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,2,5,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001101 01111010 10110001 1101 11110001 111001010 111101001 111101010010 1111011011 110100101110 11001010 11101010 0010010 11110011 001001010 11101010 1110010 11011011010 11010001 1101 01000101100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; mercy, of, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mercy connects the lines.

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