This is an analysis of Psalm 142 by Isaac Watts.
God is the hope of the helpless.
To God I made my sorrows known,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd eaea eXeX fgfg eheh
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10010010 01111101 011101 01010101 111111 11110101 110101 11111101 110111 110011111 111101 11110111 010101 10110101 111101 101110111 01110100 11110101 111101 11111111 110101 01110111 111111 11011101 110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
god, my
Anaphora
my
